| | [[Image:NeilArmstrong.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Neil Armstrong, astronaut]] | | [[Image:NeilArmstrong.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Neil Armstrong, astronaut]] |
| − | '''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 with [[NASA]] and made his first [[space flight]] on Gemini 8, carrying out the first successful space-docking, with 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 Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the [[moon]]. <ref>http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/armstrong-na.html</ref> | + | '''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 with [[NASA]] and made his first [[space flight]] on Gemini 8, carrying out the first successful space-docking, with 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 (Astronaut)|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 Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the [[moon]]. <ref>http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/armstrong-na.html</ref> |
| | [[Image:Apollo11_.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon - Apollo 11, July 20, 1969]] | | [[Image:Apollo11_.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon - Apollo 11, July 20, 1969]] |