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.
Charles "Pete" Conrad,
Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999), was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical
engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on
the Moon. He set an eight-day space endurance record
along with his Command Pilot Gordon Cooper on
the Gemini 5 mission,
and commanded the Gemini 11 mission.
After Apollo, he commanded the Skylab 2 mission
(the first manned one), on which he and his crewmates repaired significant
launch damage to the Skylab space
station. For this, President Jimmy Carter awarded
him the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in
1978.
Alan LaVern "Al"
Bean (born March 15, 1932), is an American former naval officer and aviator, aeronautical
engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. Bean was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963
as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his
first flight into space aboard Apollo 12,
the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirty-seven years in November 1969. He
made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to
the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, Bean pursued his interest
in painting, depicting various
space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as
that of his fellow Apollo Program astronauts.


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