Neil Alden Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person who walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, test pilot, and university
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Neil Alden Armstrong Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5,
1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut
and the first person who walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, 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 worked 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.
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His flights 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. He 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.
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Armstrong's second and last spaceflight 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 a half hours exploring, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module. Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon; in 1978, President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978; he and his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
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Personal life He was married to Janet Sheron (Janet
Shearon) with 1956 before their divorce in 1994, he
had two sons: Brand and Eric and daughter Karen who died at early age. After 1994 the second time married Carol Held Knight (Carol Held Knight) and lived with her up to the moment of the death in 2012. Neal lived in the State of Ohio.
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1 1 In July, 1969 Armstrong ordered the Apollo-11 spaceship
crew the moonfall first in the history was which
main task. On July 20 he became the first person who stepped into a surface of the Moon. Going into the Moon surface, Armstrong said the historical phrase It is one small step for the person, but huge jump for all mankind.
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. . Armstrong died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 25,