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Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator , test pilot , and university professor.
Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC, and Armstrong became the first person to step onto the Moon's surface six hours and 39 minutes later, on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Those were the words of Neil Armstrong, upon taking humanity's first step onto an extraterrestrial celestial.
Neil Armstrong had a pilot's license before a driver's license. As commander of Apollo 11, he was the first person to step on the moon in July 1969.
English: Neil Armstrong (1930–2012), commander of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, descends the ladder of the Apollo Lunar Module (or Lunar Excursion Module, LEM) to become the first human to set foot on the surface of the Moon.
On July 20th, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong of Wapakoneta, Ohio, became the first person to walk on the moon.
The 2018 film First Man depicts Armstrong and Aldrin as they prepare for, and then accomplish, the Apollo 11 mission. [38] The 2019 documentary Apollo 11 is a film by Todd Douglas Miller with restored footage of the 1969 event. [39] [40] 1969, a 2019 documentary series, devotes its first episode, "Moon Shot", to the Apollo 11 mission. [41]
In 1985 Sir Edmund Hillary (the first man to stand on the summit of Mount Everest) and Neil Armstrong (the first man to stand on the moon) landed at the North Pole in a small twin-engined ski plane. [40] Hillary thus became the first man to stand at both poles and on the summit of Everest.