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Neil Armstrong (1930 to 2012)
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NASA Astronaut and first men walking on the moon on July 21st.
in 1969 with Apollo 11 module.
Neil A. Armstrong, was the first man to set foot on the moon.
Neil armstrong biography timeline projects
Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1930, he began his NASA career in Ohio. After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. For the next 17 years, he served as an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and later NASA.
As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, he was a project pilot for many high-speed aircraft, such as the famous 4000 mph X-15, and flew more than 200 different aircraft models, including jets, rockets, helicopters and gliders.
Armstrong was promoted to astronaut in 1962. He was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, which launched on March 16, 1966, and performed the first successful docki