Контрольное задание №1

IV. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык 1, 3, 4 и 5-й абзацы текста.
Пояснения к тексту
to set foot upon — ступить на
when a Captain... — когда некий капитан
joined NASA - поступил (был принят) в НАСА (NASA - National Aeronautics and space Administration — Национальный комитет по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства)
the climax — (зд.) самый ответственный момент
to the very surface — на самую поверхность
a human being — человек, человеческое существо
NEIL ARMSTRONG

1. 
   Neil Armstrong, an American astronaut, is the first man in history to set foot upon the surface of the Moon. He was born in the town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, on the 5th of August, 1930. The Armstrong branch of the family was Scots-Irish and its origins can be traced back seven generations to the early 1800's when a Captain John Armstrong² settled on land in Ohio.
   
2. 
   It was Neil's father who took him for his first airplane ride, when he was six years old. By the time Neil was nine, he was building model airplanes.
   

He obtained pilot's licence at the age of 16. At the age of twenty he was assigned to a West Coast jet squadron.

3. 
   After he had graduated from the University in 1955, he joined NASA and was one of the test pilots of the X-15 rocket plane, flying that aircraft to over 200,000 feet and approximately 4,000 miles per hour.
   
4. 
   In 1962 he became an astronaut and in 1966 he was command pilot of "Gemini 8" when he performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space.
   
5. 
   The climax of his life, however, came in 1969, when as commander of the "Apollo 11" spacecraft, he and Edwin Aldrin took the lunar module down to the very surface of the Moon. Armstrong was then the first human being in history to set foot upon the very surface of the Moon.
   
6. 
   He said, "That is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." After the successful fulfilment of the program the "Apollo 11" spacecraft returned to the Earth.
   

Since 1972 Neil Armstrong has been University Professor of Cincinnati.