Personalities # 24 - Neil Alden Armstrong

We will today see the bio of a the person who did something that was second to none exactly 5 days and 41 years back, stop calculating for he was the first person to set foot on the moon, he is Neil Armstrong.

Neil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930 in Ohio. is an American Aviator and a former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the moon when Apollo 11 landed on the moon on 20 July, 1969 along with Edwin Buzz Aldrin. His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, for which he was the command pilot, becoming one of the first U.S. civilians to fly in space. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was in the United States Navy and saw action in the Korean War. He graduated from Purdue University and University of Southern California.