Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930. He became a United States astronaut and, on July 20, 1969, the first man to set foot on the moon.
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Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930. He was a pilot for the United States Navy for three years, and flew combat missions over Korea. He left the Navy to become a test pilot in 1952. He became a United States astronaut and made his first space flight on Gemini 8, which is known as the flight to first successfully dock with another space craft, the Agena docking module. Neil Armstrong was given the role of mission commander for Apollo 11. He and his crew Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins boarded the Apollo-Saturn V spacecraft before sunrise on the 16th of July, 1969 and took off from Earth at 9:32 am. On July 20, 1969 at 10:56:15 p.m. eastern daylight time, Neil Arstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. <ref>http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/armstrong-na.html</ref>