The Moon of Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong was born August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, United States and died on 25 August 2012 in Cincinnati in the same State, is an American astronaut, test pilot, aviator of the United States Navy and professor. He is the first man to set foot on the moon July 21, 1969 UTC, during the Apollo 11 mission, while pronouncing remained famous phrase "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for humanity. "

Armstrong gets an aviation license at Purdue University. His studies are momentarily interrupted in 1950 by his military service in the US Navy. It follows there a jet pilot training. Based on the aircraft carrier USS Essex, he participated in the Korean War and performs 78 missions on F9F Panther fighter. After graduation, he joined in 1955, NACA, aeronautics research organization ancestor of NASA. Became a test pilot, he made more than 900 flights in developing bombers and fighters; it also controls the experimental rocket aircraft Bell X-1B, Bell X-5 and North American X-15 (7 flights). In 1962 he enters the astronaut corps of the US space agency, NASA.

In 1966, Armstrong made his first spaceflight aboard Gemini 8 and performs the first docking of two spacecraft. He was selected as commander of Apollo 11, the first mission to land on the Moon. July 20, 1969, he flew the Apollo lunar module alunit. With his co-pilot Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong performs a spacewalk lasting twenty two hours are the first steps of man on another body than Earth. Immediately after his mission, Armstrong left the astronaut corps. It occupies a time a teaching position in aerospace and serves as spokesperson on behalf of several US companies. He is a member of commissions of inquiry formed after the interruption of the mission Apollo 13 (1970) and the crash of the space shuttle Challenger (1986).

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