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Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 - August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
Armstrong was born and raised in Wapakoneta, Ohio. A graduate of Purdue University, he studied aeronautical engineering; his college tuition was paid for by the U.S. Navy under the Holloway Plan. He became a midshipman in 1949 and a naval aviator the following year. He saw action in the Korean War, flying the Grumman F9F Panther from the aircraft carrier USS Essex. In September 1951, while making a low bombing run, Armstrong's aircraft was damaged when it collided with an anti-aircraft cable, strung across a valley, which cut off a large portion of one wing. Armstrong was forced to bail out. After the war, he completed his bachelor's degree at Purdue and became a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was the project pilot on Century Series fighters and flew the North American X-15 seven times. He was also a participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs.
Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, which was selected in 1962. He made his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. During this mission with pilot David Scott, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft; the mission was aborted after Armstrong used some of his re-entry control fuel to stabilize a dangerous roll caused by a stuck thrust. During training for Armstrong's second and last spaceflight as commander of Apollo 11, he had to eject from the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle moments before a crash. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module (LM) pilot Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon, and the next day they spent two and a half hours outside the Lunar Module Eagle spacecraft while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Apollo Command Module Columbia. When Armstrong first stepped onto the lunar surface, he famously said: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It was broadcast live to an estimated 530 million viewers worldwide. Apollo 11 effectively proved US victory in the Space Race, by fulfilling a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy "of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" before the end of the decade. Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon and received the 1969 Collier Trophy. President Jimmy Carter presented him with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979, and with his former crew-mates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.
After he resigned from NASA in 1971, Armstrong taught in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati until 1979. He served on the Apollo 13 accident investigation and on the Rogers Commission, which investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In 2012, Armstrong died due to complications resulting from coronary bypass surgery, at the age of 82.- Actor
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Neil Armstrong is known for Killing Time (1998), Adam's Family Tree (1997) and Emmerdale Farm (1972).- Location Management
Neil Armstrong is known for Teletubbies (1997).- Director
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Neil Armstrong is known for Everest: The South West Face (2017).- Additional Crew
Neil Armstrong is known for Kinect Disneyland Adventures (2011) and Two Point Hospital (2018).- Neil Armstrong is known for Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (2005).
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Neil Armstrong is known for Pay Rise (2014).- Additional Crew
Neil Armstrong is known for Dead to Rights: Retribution (2010).- Neil Armstrong Massa is known for Philter (2012).
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Neil Armstrong is known for Dare I Ask? (2008).- Neil Armstrong is known for Jon Ghost (2024) and Sceptic (2019).
- Neil Armstrong is known for Backstage (1999), Put Your Money Where Your House Is (2004) and My Motto (2017).
- Neil Armstrong is known for The Cinder Path (1994) and Harry (1993).
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Neil Armstrong is known for Raze (2013).- Neil Armstrong is known for Harrigan (2013).
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Director, author and producer of 2D and 3D animation. Writer and Screenwriter. He directed and produced three animated TV series. He also wrote and published the book "Last Fortress", which won the state prize for Incentive to the Arts, whose continuation was published by Editora Buriti (Last Fortress - Kinetic Evolution in 2018, and the book "Sword Flowers". Director and screenwriter of several award-winning shorts and four TV series. The animation series "Astrobaldo", with 13 episodes of 13 minutes each, aired nationally on TV Cultura and TV Brasil and recently on Amazon Prime, Box Kids and Zoomoo. Creator and Director of the series "Alba and the friendly ghosts", in the distribution phase. He worked as an actor in several theater plays and as a voice for films and animated series, and more recently as an actor in the feature film "The Cicada Code".- Neil Armstrong is known for Help Yourselves (2013) and Bystander (2014).
- Neil Armstrong is known for The Froome Room (1994).