News Flash: MOON!!! MOON!!! MOON!!!

 

On August 5th, 1930, Neil Armstrong, the famous baby was born. During that time, John F. Kennedy was president. He wanted to get humans to land on the one and only MOON! “I want to go to the MOON!!!” demanded young Neil. “When I’m old enough… But I will someday!!!”

When Neil was 24 he started creating rocket ship models. By age 36 he had made over 60,000! The biggest on stood at about 2 feet, 6 inches, and 7 centimeters tall. They were complete masterpieces of art- all of them. Neil was 37 when he accepted his job at Yoders, and he worked there for three weeks, stacking soup can by soup can on the shelfs. Then one day he was promoted to the mayonnaise section when his boss came over to check on him and then it happened. He spilled mayonnaise on his boss’s head by accident and was fired.

Luckily, he got a new job six months later. He worked for a group who studied airplanes. Later that group became part of NASA. Neil yearned to go to the moon. He was ready- but not really. But then, it was finally time, after 6 years of space camp, he was ready to go the moon. This time for real. He finally boarded the Apollo 11 with 2 other of his friends, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins on July 16th 1969. It was a long journey in the spacecraft. While onboard, they practiced what they would do for the camera. Neil kept on saying: “That’s right, we are now on the moon.”

Buzz said: “Buzz, buzz, no bees on the moon!!!!!”. Buzz was insane.

Michael : I’m huuuuuuuungry.        “Then have some space-food!” said Neil, sort of annoyed.

  “But I’m tired of space nuggets,”

“Then starve!”

As the rocket drew closer to its destination, Buzz was buzzing around, Michael was getting hungrier by the minute, and Neil was getting a headache. Neil was beginning to wonder if they would ever get there, when the cameraman shouted: “ There it is! The moon! We’ll be coming round the moon-tain when YOU SPEED IT UP!!!” he shouted at the driver.

“Quiet! I’m working on avoiding these meteors! With luck we’ll be there in under an hour!” hollered Driver Bob. “I want salted peanuts,” said Michael wearily.

“Fine then!” said Neil. “We’ll throw you into space, and you’ll swim through the no air back to earth, holding your breath, and buy them at the store. How’s that!”

“On second thought, I’d like to order some space nuggets. I don’t have enough energy to swim back to earth,” said Michael. “I can see the moon!!!,” screamed Buzz. “Looks like we’re going to crash!,” Michael said, frightened. “We are NOT going to crash,” said Driver Bob. “The moon just looks so big now that we are so close,”. As the shuttle neared the moon they ALL started to get excited. “It’s finally time,” Neil thought in his head, “It’s finally time.” Neil got butterflies in his stomach just as they were about 3 feet away from the moon. The cameraman got his camera ready, they were going to try to stream it live. Billions of people back home were sitting at their little box televisions. Michael’s family and Buzz’s family were at Neil’s house all huddled around the tv, waiting. They have been sitting there for nearly 6 hours watching a little black and white screen while eating homemade cookies Neil’s mom had made. It was very exciting. They all got their space suits on- even the cameraman! You could tell that they were ready. The cameraman yelled, “ACTION!”…..to be continued. By Summer and Mae