>Armstrong climbed down a ladder and walked on the moon. His actions were something that could be televised. Armstrong attempted one of the most difficult mane

>Armstrong climbed down a ladder and walked on the moon. His actions were something that could be televised. Armstrong attempted one of the most difficult maneuvers in the history of man. The reason Armstrong was the first man on the moon, other than the fact that Gus Grissom died in a fire, was because he was the only person on earth who could land Apollo 11. Did Arenstorf risk his life doing something that had literally never been done before? Did he literally take the first step into a literally unknown world that literally no human had ever been before? No? That's why people know who Neil Armstrong is. I get what you're obliquely saying about how society values what you think are the wrong things. But you're brushing off nearly unfathomable accomplishments (it's easy to take for granted the fact that we landed on the moon when it's been true your whole life) to make a point about how a single person doing math deserves as much credit as the person who successfully landed the multibillion dollar ship built and operated by 400,000 people. Do you know the names of the countless engineers who built new technology on the Saturn V or the Apollo spacecraft then got it to work? Is Arenstorf more essential than they were?