Neil
Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test
pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and
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 High-Speed
Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, 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 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly
in space. On this mission, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft,
with pilot David Scott.
Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin
Eugene Aldrin, Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American engineer and
former astronaut, and the second
person to walk on the Moon. He was the Lunar
Module Pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history. He set foot on
the Moon at 03:15:16 (UTC) on July 21, 1969, following mission commander Neil
Armstrong. He is also a former U.S. Air
Force officer and a Command Pilot.


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