NIEL AMSTRONG

Born:August 5, 1930,Wapakoneta,
Ohio,
United States

Died:August 25, 2012,

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Neil Alden Armstrong(August 5, 1930 August 25, 2012) was an

Americanastronautand thefirst person to walk on the Moon. He was
also anaerospace engineer,naval aviator,test pilot, and
university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was
an officerin theU.S. Navyand served in theKorean War. After the
war, he earned his bachelor's degree atPurdue Universityand
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 theUniversity of Southern California.
A participant in theU.S. Air Force'sMan in Space SoonestandX-20
Dyna -Soarhuman spaceflightprograms, Armstrong joined the
NASA Astronaut Corpsin 1962. He made his first space flight as
command pilot ofGemini 8in March 1966, becoming NASA's first
civilian astronaut to fly in space. He performed the firstdockingof
twospacecraft, with pilotDavid Scott

Me walking on the moon