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Armstrong was a member of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] in his youth, and he earned the highest [[rank]] of [[Eagle Scout]] before the age of 18. He was a [[United States Navy]] pilot for three years, and flew over [[Korea]]; he left to become a test pilot in 1952. He became a NASA astronaut and flew on [[Gemini 8]], carrying out the first space-docking with the Agena docking module. He was made mission commander for [[Apollo 11]]. The crew, consisting of Neil Armstrong, [[Buzz Aldrin]], and [[Michael Collins (Astronaut)|Michael Collins]], boarded the [[Saturn V]] before sunrise on the 16th of July, 1969 and took off at 9:32 am. On July 20, 1969 at 10:56:15 p.m. EDT, Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. <ref>http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/armstrong-na.html</ref>
 
Armstrong was a member of the [[Boy Scouts of America]] in his youth, and he earned the highest [[rank]] of [[Eagle Scout]] before the age of 18. He was a [[United States Navy]] pilot for three years, and flew over [[Korea]]; he left to become a test pilot in 1952. He became a NASA astronaut and flew on [[Gemini 8]], carrying out the first space-docking with the Agena docking module. He was made mission commander for [[Apollo 11]]. The crew, consisting of Neil Armstrong, [[Buzz Aldrin]], and [[Michael Collins (Astronaut)|Michael Collins]], boarded the [[Saturn V]] before sunrise on the 16th of July, 1969 and took off at 9:32 am. On July 20, 1969 at 10:56:15 p.m. EDT, Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. <ref>http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/armstrong-na.html</ref>
[[Image:NASA Moon Flag.jpg‎|left|thumb|250px|Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon - Apollo 11, July 20, 1969]]. On August 25, 2012, Armstrong died of complications following a surgery to repair a blocked coronary artery.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/us/neil-armstrong-obit/index.html</ref>
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[[Image:NASA Moon Flag.jpg‎|left|thumb|250px|Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon - Apollo 11, July 20, 1969]] On August 25, 2012, Armstrong died of complications following a surgery to repair a blocked coronary artery.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/us/neil-armstrong-obit/index.html</ref>
    
==One Small Step for a man==
 
==One Small Step for a man==
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