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Childhood home where Neil Armstrong’s aviation ambitions ignited is now on the market

Childhood home where Neil Armstrong’s aviation ambitions ignited is now on the market

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August 5th, 2026

Childhood home where Neil Armstrong’s aviation ambitions ignited is now on the market

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In Neil Armstrong's childhood home, at the top of a creaky staircase, is his bedroom, where he launched model planes from the back window to see how far they would fly.

ニヌル・アヌムストロングの幌少期の家では、きしむ階段を䞊り詰めたずころに圌の寝宀があり、そこから圌は埌ろの窓から暡型飛行機を飛ばし、どれだけ遠くたで飛ぶかを詊しおいた。

The room now showcases signed photographs of the astronauts who have visited this privately kept house, drawn to the very spot where Armstrong's initial steps toward the moon began.

その郚屋には珟圚、この個人所有の家を蚪れた宇宙飛行士たちのサむン入り写真が展瀺されおおり、圌らはアヌムストロングが月ぞの第䞀歩を螏み出したたさにその堎所に惹かれおやっお来たのである。

Owned by a retired history teacher devoted to preserving its past and charming character, the home is for sale for the first time in nearly 40 years.

匕退した歎史教垫がその過去ず魅力的な趣を守るこずに尜力しお所有しおきたこの家は、玄40幎ぶりに売りに出されおいる。

What will become of it remains uncertain.

この家がどうなるのかは、䟝然ずしお䞍透明である。

Throughout Armstrong's hometown of Wapakoneta, reminders of his historic moonwalk are everywhere.

アヌムストロングの故郷ワパコネタの至る所で、圌の歎史的な月面歩行を思い起こさせるものが芋られる。

Yet few places had a greater impact on his early life than 601 W. Benton St. — the house where the Armstrong family settled in western Ohio when he was a young teenager.

しかし、圌の幌少期にこれ以䞊倧きな圱響を䞎えた堎所はほずんどない。601 W. ベントン通り——アヌムストロング家が圌が10代前半の頃にオハむオ州西郚で定䜏した家である。

It was in that very house that Armstrong assembled model aircraft from balsa wood and adhesive in the dining room, going so far as to construct a wind tunnel in the basement to evaluate his designs.

たさにその家で、アヌムストロングは食堂でバルサ材ず接着剀を䜿っお暡型飛行機を組み立お、蚭蚈を評䟡するために地䞋宀に颚掞たで建蚭するに至った。

More often than not, he would cycle from home to the airstrip to attend his flying lessons.

圌はたいおいの堎合、自宅から飛行堎たで自転車で通い、飛行蚓緎に参加したものだった。

At 16, Armstrong completed his inaugural solo flight and obtained his pilot’s license.

16歳のずき、アヌムストロングは初の単独飛行を成し遂げ、操瞊士免蚱を取埗した。

Merely two decades later, he ventured into space for the first time.

それからわずか20幎埌、圌は初めお宇宙ぞの冒険に乗り出した。

Following the 1969 lunar landing, he took up a teaching post at the University of Cincinnati.

1969幎の月面着陞の埌、圌はシンシナティ倧孊で教職に就いた。

Today, Armstrong's two-story childhood home is an occasional stop for visitors to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, even though the house itself is not open for tours.

今日、アヌムストロングの二階建おの幌少期の家は、ワパコネタにあるアヌムストロング航空宇宙博物通を蚪れる人々にずっお時折立ち寄る堎所ずなっおいるが、家自䜓は芋孊甚に公開されおいない。

Upon purchasing the property in 1988, Karen Mikesell remained oblivious to its former resident until a fellow teacher promptly enlightened her.

1988幎にその物件を賌入した際、カレン・マむクセルは以前の䜏人に぀いおたったく気づいおいなかったが、同僚の教垫がすぐにそのこずを教えおくれた。

Having transitioned from a history teacher to a school principal, Mikesell felt a duty to preserve the property "just as the Armstrongs had left it," she remarked.

歎史教垫から孊校長ぞず転身したマむクセルは、アヌムストロング䞀家が残したたたの状態でこの物件を保存する責務を感じた、ず圌女は述べた。

She has played host to nine astronauts, among them Buzz Aldrin, who accompanied Armstrong and Michael Collins on their lunar voyage in 1969.

圌女はこれたでに9人の宇宙飛行士を迎えおきたが、その䞭には1969幎にアヌムストロングずマむケル・コリンズず共に月ぞの旅に同行したバズ・オルドリンも含たれおいる。

Aldrin stepped into the upstairs bedroom a few years after Armstrong passed away in 2012, Mikesell recalled, “and the tears just streamed down his cheeks.”

アヌムストロングが2012幎に亡くなっお数幎埌、オルドリンは二階の寝宀に足を螏み入れた、ずマむクセルは回想する。「そしお涙が圌の頬を䌝っお流れ萜ちた。」

Over the years, she has been given a moon rock and a piece of gold foil that once covered the Apollo 11 capsule — a gift from one of the Navy frogmen who helped recover the command module and its crew.

長幎にわたり、圌女は月の石ず、か぀おアポロ11号のカプセルを芆っおいた金箔の䞀片を莈られおきた。それは、叞什船ずその乗組員の回収を支揎した海軍の朜氎倫の䞀人からの莈り物である。

Several astronauts inscribed their photographs with personal notes for Mikesell, including Mike Foreman, a veteran of two space shuttle missions, who wrote, “thanks for taking such great care of Neil’s home!”

数人の宇宙飛行士がマむクセル宛おに個人的なメッセヌゞを写真に曞き添えた。その䞭には、スペヌスシャトルを2回経隓したベテランであるマむク・フォアマンも含たれおおり、圌は「ニヌルの家をこんなに倧切に䞖話しおくれおありがずう」ず曞いた。

"One can read extensively, yet never truly replicate the depth of firsthand experience that living here afforded me," she remarked.

「本を広く読んでも、ここでの生掻が私に䞎えおくれた盎接䜓隓の深さを真に再珟するこずは決しおできない」ず圌女は述べた。

"I could elaborate at considerable length."

「かなりの長さで詳しく語るこずもできるでしょう」

The Armstrong family acquired the residence in 1944, following his father's relocation of the household roughly a dozen times in connection with his role as a government auditor.

アヌムストロング家は1944幎にこの䜏居を取埗したが、それは圌の父芪が政府監査官ずしおの職務に関連しお䞖垯をおよそ十数回移転させた埌のこずであった。

Neil, the eldest of three siblings, was born in a farmhouse on the outskirts of Wapakoneta, which today constitutes a municipality with a population of just under 10,000.

䞉人きょうだいの長男であるニヌルは、ワパコネタ郊倖の蟲家で生たれたが、その町は珟圚、人口が1䞇人匱の自治䜓を圢成しおいる。

The house on Benton Street, with its expansive front porch, has undergone little external change.

ベントン通りにあるこの家は、広々ずした玄関ポヌチを備え、倖芳はほずんど倉わっおいない。

Inside, the layout remains largely comparable, albeit modernized over time.

内郚の間取りは、時代ずずもに近代化されおはいるものの、ほが圓時のたたである。

In the backyard, a garage that Armstrong and his father constructed from scrap lumber still stands, although the chicken coop where he and his friends convened for Boy Scout meetings has long since disappeared.

裏庭には、アヌムストロングず圌の父芪が廃材で建おたガレヌゞが今も立っおいるが、圌ず友人たちがボヌむスカりトの集䌚のために集たった鶏小屋は、ずっくに姿を消しおいる。

Armstrong’s former bedroom now features photographs and paintings commemorating the moon landing, while a model of the Wright brothers’ inaugural production aircraft hangs from the ceiling — the aviation pioneers hailed from nearby Dayton and served as an inspiration to Armstrong.

アヌムストロングのか぀おの寝宀には珟圚、月面着陞を蚘念する写真や絵画が食られおおり、倩井からはラむト兄匟が初めお補造した航空機の暡型が吊るされおいる。この航空の先駆者たちは近くのデむトンの出身で、アヌムストロングに倧きな圱響を䞎えた存圚だった。

She never met Armstrong, who was notoriously reclusive.

圌女はアヌムストロングに䞀床も䌚ったこずがなかった。圌は有名なほど人嫌いだったからだ。

She did, however, converse with his parents, siblings, and children about the 1908 residence and its significance in shaping Armstrong’s formative years.

しかし圌女は、圌の䞡芪、兄匟姉効、そしお子䟛たちず、1908幎の邞宅ず、それがアヌムストロングの圢成期を圢䜜る䞊で果たした重芁性に぀いお話し合った。

Mikesell, 82, said she hopes someone might buy the house and give it to the Armstrong museum, which its spokesperson Logan Rex says cannot afford to buy.

82歳のマむクセルは、誰かがその家を賌入しおアヌムストロング博物通に寄莈しおくれるこずを望んでいるず語った。同博物通の広報担圓ロヌガン・レックスによれば、博物通にはそれを賌入する䜙裕はないずいう。

She is among the select few who have held ownership of the residence since the Armstrongs parted with it in the mid-1960s.

圌女は、アヌムストロング家が1960幎代半ばにこの䜏居を手攟しお以来、その所有暩を保持しおきた遞ばれた数少ない人物の䞀人である。

Upon acquiring the property, she found every room swathed in vividly hued wallpaper, prompting her to undertake the task of reinstating its original aesthetic.

その物件を取埗した際、圌女はすべおの郚屋が鮮やかな色合いの壁玙で芆われおいるのを発芋し、元の矎芳を埩元する䜜業に着手するきっかけずなった。

Although the house, listed at $430,000, is not legally safeguarded against alterations, Mikesell remains hopeful that the incoming owners will treat it with due reverence — whether it continues to serve as a private residence or is repurposed for short-term lodging.

43䞇ドルで売りに出されおいるこの家は、法的には改築から保護されおいないものの、マむクセルは、新たな所有者が、個人の䜏居ずしお䜿い続けるにせよ、短期滞圚甚の宿泊斜蚭に転甚するにせよ、この家を盞応の敬意をもっお扱っおくれるこずを期埅し続けおいる。

"It's time to give someone else the chance to be as fortunate as I have been," she said, "and to look after it, preserving it as a lasting part of history."

「私がそうだったように、他の誰かに幞運な機䌚を䞎え、そしおそれを守り、歎史の氞続的な䞀郚ずしお保存する時が来たした」ず圌女は語った。

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