- Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon
Born: | 05 August 1930 Comment | When did Neil Armstrong die? / Died | 25 August 2012 | How many years did Neil Armstrong live? / Lived | 82 years | Zodiac sign: | Leo |
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Neil Armstrong facts
- He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor
- Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U
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- Navy and served in the Korean War
- After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, where he logged over 900 flights
- He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California
- A participant in the U
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- 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 March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space
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