Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon. Armstrong and Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command/Service Module. This mission was aborted after Armstrong used some of his reentry control fuel to prevent a dangerous spin caused by a stuck thruster, in the first in-flight space emergency.Īrmstrong's second and last spaceflight was as commander of Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing mission in July 1969. He performed the first docking of two spacecraft, with pilot David Scott. 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. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California.Ī participant in the U.S.
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. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
Neil Alden Armstrong (Aug– August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. Error creating thumbnail: File with dimensions greater than 25 MP
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