Neil Armstrong
| 1930-08-05 - 2012-08-25 |
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, as commander of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was a naval aviator who flew in the Korean War and later became a test pilot, flying the X-15 seven times. He joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962 and made his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space.
