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Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was the first
person to walk on the Moon, as well as an American astronaut, test
pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor and United States
Naval Aviator. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was a United
States Navy officer and served in the Korean War. After the war, he
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 graduated from
Purdue University and completed graduate studies at the University of
Southern California.

A participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest and X-20
Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA
Astronaut Corps in 1962. His first spaceflight was the NASA Gemini 8
mission in 1966, for which he was the command pilot, becoming one of
the first U.S. civilians in space. On this mission, he performed the
first manned docking of two spacecraft with pilot David Scott.

Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of
the Apollo 11moon landing in July 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent 2½ hours
exploring, while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the Command
Module. Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
byPresident Richard Nixon along with Collins and Aldrin, the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor by President Jimmy Carter in 1978,
and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

On August 25, 2012, Armstrong died in Cincinnati, Ohio,[1] at the age
of 82 due to complications from blocked coronary arteries.

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