Neil Armstrong - One Giant Leap For Mankind

Neil Armstrong was Americas rocket man, the first person to setfoot on the moon and turn science fiction into amazing reality.Award-winning authors Tara Dixon-Engel and Mike Jackson tell thefascinating story of how Armstrong went where no one had gonebefore, leaving his mark on the powdery surface of another world.Even at an age when other boys were just learning to drive, Neilwas training to reach the skies. He went on to study aeronauticalengineering, win medals as a fighter pilot, try out the X-15experimental rocket plane and become one of the elite few chosen tobe a NASA astronautwhere he took the test pilots credo of"higher,faster and farther to thrilling heights.