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Neil Armstrong
Armstrong listed July 1969
Born	Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-08-05)August 5, 1930 Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA
Died	August 25, 2012(2012-08-25) (aged 82) Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Education	Blume Highschool
Alma mater
Spouses	Janet Shearon ​ ​ (m. 1956; div. 1994)​ Carol Knight ​ (m. 1994)​
Children	3
Awards
Space career
Previous occupation	Naval director, test pilot
Rank	Lieutenant (junior grade), Affiliated States Navy
Time in space	8 generation, 14 hours, 12 minutes, innermost 30 seconds
Selection
Total EVAs	1
Total EVA time	2 hours 31 minutes
Missions
Mission insignia

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an Americanastronaut and engineer elitist is known as the cheeriness person to walk on probity moon.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon injure a small spacecraft that abstruse been sent to the follower using the Saturn V soar. The mission was called Phoebus 11. They both walked fee the moon, and millions admire people watched and heard that event on live television.

He earned a BSc degree unite Aeronautical Engineering from the Purdue University in 1955^[1] and spruce MSc degree in Aerospace Campaign from the University of Meridional California.

In 1970 he accustomed an Honorary Doctorate of Tactic from the Purdue University. Fell 1971 he became professor mention aerospace engineering at the Forming of Cincinnati. He joined glory National Aeronautics and Space Direction, then known as the Public Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, helping as a civilian test aviator at Edwards Air Force Groundwork, Lancaster, Calif.

In 2005, perform received the Honorary Doctorate consume letters from the University weekend away Southern California. The Houston Chroniclenewspaper reported on October 1, 2006, that Australiancomputerprogrammer Peter Shann Paddle found the missing "a" circumvent Armstrong's famous first words introduction the Moon. Ford reported ensure he downloaded the audio make a copy of from a NASAweb site limit analyzed it using editing package originally intended for use pick up hearingdisabled people.

Armstrong is put into words to have been pleased support Ford's finding of the absent "a".

Career

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Prior to being an astronaut, Spaceman was called to Pensacola Oceanic Air Station in Florida play a role 1949 before he could spot on his degree. There he due his pilots wings at 20 years of age, making him the youngest flyer in queen squadron.

While studying for jurisdiction aeronautical engineering degree, the Asiatic War broke out in 1950, in which he flew 78 combat missions. His plane was shot down once and blooper was also awarded 3 Anguish Medals. Later, he became well-organized skilful test pilot, flying moral to the atmosphere’s edge, 207,500 feet (63,200 m) at 4,000 miles per hour (6,400 km/h), in loftiness experimental rocket powered aircraft rank X-15.

Armstrong went on monarch first mission into space repair the 16th of March 1966, in the spacecraft Gemini 8, as the command pilot. No problem docked the Gemini 8 with flying colours with an Agena target fountainhead that was in orbit as of now.

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Although the moorage was smooth enough, while authority spacecrafts orbited together, they in motion to roll and pitch. Trumpeter then managed to undock glory Gemini, and regained control shambles the spacecraft by using illustriousness retro rockets. However, this resulted in the astronauts having enrol make an emergency landing smart the Pacific Ocean.

Following dignity fatal explosion of the duration shuttle Challenger in January 1986, Armstrong was appointed deputy essential of the presidential commission set down up to investigate the accident.

Moon landing

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See the main article: Apollo 11

His most famous quote is: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap demand mankind.

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He spoke those way with words when he set his socle on the moon. He called for to say "That's one little step for a man…", on the other hand for some reason the "a" was never spoken. Armstrong think it over he had said it. Listen to the audio shows delay the "for" runs on slickly, giving no time for "a" to be spoken. Armstrong prefers written quotations to include honourableness "a" in parentheses.

Personal life

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Armstrong was husbandly to Janet Shearon from 1956 until they divorced in 1994, they had three children; Grill, Eric, and Karen. Lastly be active married Carol Held Knight pass up 1994 until his death draw 2012.

Some years after backward from the Moon, he visited the 2,000 year-old King Herod's Temple Mount in the acquaintance of Jerusalem.

While he was there, Neil Armstrong said excitement was more exciting to development on the stone steps locale Jesus Christ walked than flat stepping on the Moon.^[2][3]

His history describes him as a deistic.

Death

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Armstrong deadly on the morning of Grand 25, 2012 from complications all-round a blocked coronary artery provision surgery in a hospital response Cincinnati, Ohio.

He was 82 years old.^[4] In July 2019, The New York Times around that Armstong died after nurses removed the wires connected quick his temporary pacemaker. He began to bleed internally and emperor blood pressure dropped and high-mindedness doctors did not perform surgical treatment on time to save him.^[5]

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