To my knowledge Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has never been arrested.
Neil Armstrong
The first president to walk on the moon was Richard Nixon. He was not an astronaut, but he did speak to the Apollo 11 crew while they were on the moon in 1969.
The Soviets never walked on the Moon, only Americans did.
1969
A US citizen
Alan Shepard (1923-1998), the first US astronaut launched into space on May 5, 1961, also became the first man to hit a golf ball on the Moon. He became the 5th man to walk on the Moon when he and Edgar Mitchell landed there on the Apollo 14 mission, on January 31, 1971.
20 July 1969
the year that the USA put the first man on the moon was in 1969 and it was Neil Armstrong.
Neil Armstrong. All persons that have been to the moon, including Neil Armstrong, were from the US.
1961, it was a great moment for us all.
Richard Nixon was the President of the US when astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped from the lunar lander Eagle for the first landing on the moon. The mission was Apollo 11, and the landing occured on 20 July, 1969.