This song is available on Jonathan Sprout's More American Heroes.

NEIL ARMSTRONG (1930- ), commander of the Apollo 11 lunar mission in 1969, was the first person to walk on the moon. Learning how to pilot an airplane before he could drive, his passion for flight led him to push the frontiers of air and spaceexploration. His quiet confidence, burning ambition and willingness to work tirelessly without complaint enabled him to become an outstanding pilot and astronaut. A deeply modest and private man, he left the limelight to become a professor of engineering, considering his extraordinary achievements to be nothing more than doing his job.

“That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong

Even as a little baby, he’d gaze up at the sky
And wave his tiny arms as if he wanted to fly.....

REFRAIN: First man, first man on the moon.
First man, first man on the moon.

He received his pilot’s license the day he turned 16.
With cotton candy clouds below his flying machine,....

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He was a brave Navy pilot when he was only twenty.
Studied flight engineering, and he learned plenty.
Took a job at NASA
Flying every kind of plane under the stars.

Pushing throttles to the limit, he did all that he’d been taught
He did the work to become an astronaut.
Commanded Gemini 8 above the atmosphere
All for Apollo.

It was 1969. A quarter million miles away
An earthling on a ladder chose the words he would say.
Life on our blue marble would never be the same.
We all grew a little closer the moment he became...

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