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Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was
an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer and the first
person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test
pilot, and university professor.
A graduate of Purdue University, Armstrong studied aeronautical
engineering; his college tuition was paid for by the U.S.
Navy under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949
and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in
the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from
the aircraft carrier USS Essex. In September 1951, while making
a low bombing run, Armstrong's aircraft was damaged when it
collided with an anti-aircraft cable which cut off a large portion of
one wing. Armstrong was forced to bail out. After the war, he
completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test
pilot at the National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air
Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century
Series fighters and flew the North American X-15 seven times. He
was also 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 the second group,
which was selected in 1962. He made his first spaceflight as
command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first
civilian astronaut to fly in space. During this mission with
pilot David Scott, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft;
the mission was aborted after Armstrong used some of his re-
entry control fuel to stabilize a dangerous roll caused by a stuck
thruster. During training for Armstrong's second and last
spaceflight as commander of Apollo 11, he had to eject from
the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle moments before a crash.
On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM)
pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon, and
the next day they spent two and a half hours outside the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John H. Glenn Research Center
Lewis Field
Cleveland, Ohio 44135
Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in
Wapakoneta, Ohio,
on August 5, 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. His first assignment was with the NACA Lewis Research
Center (now NASA Glenn) in Cleveland. Over the next 17 years,
he was an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for
NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards,
Calif., he was a project pilot on many pioneering high speed
aircraft, including the well known, 4000-mph X-15. He has flown
over 200 different models of aircraft, including jets, rockets,
helicopters and gliders.
Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962. He was
assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission. Gemini 8
was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the
first successful docking of two vehicles in space.
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar
landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first
man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface.
Armstrong subsequently held the position of Deputy Associate
Administrator for Aeronautics, NASA Headquarters, Washington,
D.C. In this position, he was responsible for the coordination and
management of overall NASA research and technology work
related to aeronautics.
He was Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of
Cincinnati between 1971-1979. During the years 1982-1992,
Armstrong was chairman of Computing Technologies for Aviation,
Inc., Charlottesville, Va.
He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautical
Engineering from Purdue University and a Master of Science in
Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California.
He holds honorary doctorates from a number of universities.
Armstrong was a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots
and the Royal Aeronautical Society; Honorary Fellow of the
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the
International Astronautics Federation.
He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. He served as a
member of the National Commission on Space (1985-1986), as
Vice-Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Space
Shuttle Challenger Accident (1986), and as Chairman of the
Presidential Advisory Committee for the Peace Corps (1971-
1973).
Armstrong was decorated by 17 countries. He was the recipient of
many special honors, including the Presidential Medal of
Freedom; the Congressional Gold Medal; the Congressional
Space Medal of Honor; the Explorers Club Medal; the Robert H.
Goddard Memorial Trophy; the NASA Distinguished Service
Medal; the Harmon International Aviation Trophy; the Royal
Geographic Society's Gold Medal; the Federation Aeronautique
Internationale's Gold Space Medal; the American Astronautical
Society Flight Achievement Award; the Robert J. Collier Trophy;
the AIAA Astronautics Award; the Octave Chanute Award; and
the John J. Montgomery Award.
Armstrong passed away on Aug. 25, 2012 following complications
resulting from cardiovascular procedures. He was 82
spacecraft while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the
mission's command module (CM). When Armstrong stepped onto
the lunar surface, he famously said: "That's one small step for [a]
man, one giant leap for mankind." Along with Collins and Aldrin,
Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of
Freedom by President Richard Nixon. President Jimmy
Carter presented Armstrong with the Congressional Space Medal
of Honor in 1978, and Armstrong and his former crewmates
received a Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
After he resigned from NASA in 1971, Armstrong taught in the
Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of
Cincinnati until 1979. He served on the Apollo 13 accident
investigation and on the Rogers Commission, which investigated
the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. He acted as a spokesman
for several businesses and appeared in advertising for the
automotive brand Chrysler starting in January 1979.