On July 20, 1969, more than 450 million people gathered around their televisions to watch a grainy black-and-white broadcast. They held their breath as Neil Armstrong carefully stepped off a spacecraft and onto the dusty surface of the moon, famously declaring it a giant leap for mankind. But how did a regular kid from Ohio end up making history in outer space? This exciting biography traces Neil's lifelong obsession with flight. You will learn how he started out as a young Eagle Scout building his own tiny model airplanes and eventually grew up to become a daring test pilot flying highly experimental aircraft. Follow his incredible journey from the cockpit of fighter jets to the intense training of the NASA astronaut program. Packed with fascinating details about the Apollo 11 mission, this book reveals the bravery, hard work, and brilliant engineering that took human beings to the moon for the very first time.