Yes. A lot of people went into space before Neil Armstrong; he would be known as 'the first person in space' otherwise.
I'm sure he did, in the astronaut corps if nowhere else.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, while Michael Collins orbited overhead.
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Yes. Buzz Aldrin,or otherwise called Edwin Aldrin!
The Apollo 11 crew that travelled to the moon included Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module Eagle on the moon on July 20, 1969.
There was also Michael Collins, the Command Module pilot.
He was a teacher and I'm right shut up haters
Then he would not be famous for being the first to walk on the moon. Someone else would be.
Apparantly it was Neil Armstrong. But recently there's been rumours that he talked someone else into letting him have credit for it. But Neil Armstrong is down in the guiness book of records for being the first man to step on the moon.
Roald Amundson reaching the south pole before anybody else
The astronauts who have been to the moon are Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong Alan Bean Eugene Cernan, Pete Conrad Charles Duke James Irwin Edgar Mitchell Harrison Schmitt, David Scott, Alan Shepard John Young