nacl01:
Re: “'I don't think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero'”
He didn't view himself as a hero at all. He was a modest man.
That doesn't change the fact that he most definitely WAS an American hero.
I view the moon program as a collaborative effort between America and Wernher von Braun. The rest of the world had nothing to do with it.
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