MOMENTS IN SPACE HISTORY
Mission commander Neil Armstrong checks communications prior
to boarding the spacecraft for the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.
NEIL ARMSTRONG was the first man to
walk on the lunar surface in the Apollo 11 flight July 29,
1969, with command module pilot Michael Collins and lunar
module pilot Buzz Aldrin. He was a naval aviator and test
pilot prior to joining NASA. After his flight career, he was in
NASA’s administrations, served as an aerospace engineering
professor at the University of Cincinnati and later as head
of a computer corporation. He was awarded honorary
doctorates, decorated by 17 countries and was honored with
the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional
Gold Medal among many other awards.
“ I guess we all like to be recognized
not for one piece of fireworks, but for
the ledger of our daily work. ” — From a 60 Minutes interview in 2005
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