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Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)

Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, Armstrong began his NASA career in Ohio.  He
was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon.  
Armstrong, who lived in Indian Hills (OH), died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on
August 25, 2012, at the age of 82.  A reluctant hero and a quiet man who
relished not being in the limelight, Armstrong was buried at sea.

An aerospace engineer , he served as a professor of aerospace engineering at
the University of Cincinnati from 1971-1980.  The University of Cincinnati
awarded Armstrong an honorary degree of Doctor of Science in June 1982
when he was speaker at UC's commencement ceremony.  Armstrong was also a
naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. Before becoming an astronaut,
Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War.

He made his first space flight, as command pilot of Gemini 8, in 1966,
becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. Armstrong's second
and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing,
in July 1969.

Click the video (left) to learn more about the man famously known for saying
upon stepping onto the moon "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind."






Source (data):       www.nasa.gov                     en.wikipedia.org        http://www.uc.edu/             
Source (images):   NASA
Source (video):      http://www.biography.com                         
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Posted February 2013