At UC, Armstrong taught courses on aerodynamics and flight mechanics. UC was one of the first universities in the world to launch an aerospace program. “I saw a news blurb that he was going to be a professor of aerospace engineering. Stear, who grew up in upstate New York, applied to UC after learning that his childhood hero was teaching there. And during his nine-year tenure at UC, he declined most all other interview requests. To avoid favoritism, he granted no personal interviews, except to the UC student newspaper The News Record. More than 70 news outlets from as far away as Europe stood elbow-to-elbow at the press conference announcing his appointment to UC. He would put on his sunglasses and find the shortest distance to get somewhere - head down,” Stear recalled.Īrmstrong was an international celebrity despite his misgivings about fame. Students at UC also found Armstrong to be surprisingly reserved for someone who strived to push the boundaries of human accomplishment in feats requiring equal parts daring and discipline.
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Aldrin cracked the first joke on the moon when in closing the hatch of the Eagle lander he quipped he was “making sure not to lock it on my way out.” He was always anxious to talk about airplanes.”Īldrin and Armstrong had contrasting personalities. But he never initiated those conversations about space. “He never told stories about the space program,” former student Mark Stear (Eng ’78) said. And while he was eager to share his enthusiasm for aerospace, his students would learn little about his most famous mission, Apollo 11, which won America’s space race with the former Soviet Union. As a 15-year-old in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Armstrong would ride his bicycle to the local airfield to take flying lessons even before he got his driver’s license.
12 that chronicles America’s dangerous and ambitious mission to set foot on the moon through the eyes of the person who first did it, the decorated Korean War veteran, test pilot and mild-mannered teacher.Īrmstrong’s former students say nobody loved flying more than he did. He is the subject of the new biopic “ First Man” opening Oct. He had offers from universities around the country to serve as their president but chose UC because of its vaunted aerospace program and his simple desire to teach students about his first love, flying.Īrmstrong died in 2012.
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