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*april 1969*
(‘age 38’)
(a few months before the moon landing)
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*’5 august 1930′ – ’25 august 2012’*
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*”neil alden armstrong” was an american astronaut + the 1st person to walk on the ‘moon’*
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(he was also an…)
‘aerospace engineer’
‘naval aviator’
‘test pilot’
‘university professor’
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(before becoming an astronaut, ‘armstrong’ was an officer in the ‘US Navy’ + served in the ‘korean war’)
(after the war, he earned his bachelor’s degree at ‘Purdue University’ and served as a test pilot at the “National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station”, where he logged over 900 flights)
(he later 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)
(he made his first space flight as command pilot of ‘Gemini 8’ in March 1966, becoming NASA’s first civilian astronaut to fly in space)
(he performed the first docking of 2 spacecraft, with pilot David Scott)
(this mission was aborted after ‘Armstrong’ used some of his “reentry control fuel” to prevent a dangerous spin caused by a stuck thruster, in the first in-flight space emergency)
(Armstrong’s second and last spaceflight was as commander of Apollo 11, the first manned Moon landing mission in July 1969)
(armstrong and ‘Lunar Module’ pilot “Buzz Aldrin” descended to the lunar surface and spent two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the “Command/Service Module”)
(along with ‘Collins’ and ‘Aldrin’, Armstrong was awarded the “Presidential Medal of Freedom” by “President Richard Nixon”)
(“President Jimmy Carter” presented Armstrong the “Congressional Space Medal of Honor” in 1978)
(Armstrong and his former crewmates received the “Congressional Gold Medal” in 2009)
(‘armstrong’ died in ‘cincinnati’ (/ ‘ohio’) on ’25 august 2012′)
(‘age 82’)
(after complications from ‘coronary artery bypass surgery’)
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*“FAMOUS NEILS” (THE DEAD)* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥