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Neil Armstrong first step on the moon
Neil Armstrong first step on the moon
Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25,
2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on
the Moon. He was also an aerospace, naval aviator, test pilot,
and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was
an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean
War. After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue
University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, now known as
the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he logged over 900 flights. He
later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California.
A participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man
in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs,
Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962, and made his first
space flight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966, becoming NASA's
first civilian astronaut to fly in space. On this mission, he performed the
first docking of two spacecraft with pilot David Scott
Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as
mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing in
July 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to
the lunar surface and spent two and one-half hours exploring, while Michael
Collins remained in orbit in the Command Module. Armstrong was awarded
the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard
Nixon along with Collins and Aldrin, the Congressional Space Medal of
Honor by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, and the Congressional
Gold Medal with his former crewmates in 2009.
Armstrong, died in Cincinnati on
August 25, 2012, at the of age 82, due to complications from blocked coronary
arteries.
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