Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong (b. August 5 1930 -d. August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut,he was one of the three men on the Apollo 11 in 1969 and the first person to walk on the moon.He served in the US navy before becoming an Astronaut in the Korean War.He earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served 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.He made his first space flight in 1966 as the command pilot of Gemini 8.His second and last spaceflight was made in the Apollo 11 mission,where he became the first man to walk the moon.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, and he earned the Congression Gold Medal with his former crewmates in 2009.He died on August 25, at the age of 82 after complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.