Neil Armstrong

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

One the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to step foot on the moon. Armstrong was a veteran aviator: he had flown 78 combat mission over Korea as a navyfighter pilot.

Later he joined NASA as a civilian test pilot. He was accepted into the astronauts corps in 1962. Armstrong was the pilot of the GEMIR mission (launched 16th March 1966) and then was named comander for the Apollo 11 mission of 1969. With his crew consisting of Buzz Aldrin and Micheal Collins, Armstrong flew to the moon; while Collins circled the moon. The commander module Columbia, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the luner surface in the module.Aftyer retiring from NASA in 1971, Armstrong was a professor at the University of cincinnati for nearly a decade.