What difference did Neil Armstrong make to the world?

Answer 1

Neil Alden Armstrong, an American astronaut, was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, aerospace engineer, and university professor. He was born August 5, 1930. He died August 25, 2012 at age 82 after complications from heart bypass surgery.

Before his days as an astronaut, Armstrong served in the Korean War as an officer in the US Navy. He then attended Purdue University and earned a bachelor's degree. After that, he was a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, logging over 900 flights. That is now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center. At the University of Southern California, he completed graduate studies.

In 1962, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps. In 1966, he made his first space flight as command pilot of Gemini 8. That made him NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. On this mission, along with pilot David Scott, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft.

On his second and last spaceflight which was in July 1969, Armstrong was the mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Because of that mission, President Richard Nixon awarded Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. Then in 2009, Armstrong and his former crew mates received the Congressional Gold Medal.