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Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 in Ohio and had a lifelong love of aviation from a young age. He studied aeronautical engineering and became a test pilot for NASA, flying over 200 aircraft including the X-15 rocket plane. Armstrong joined the astronaut program in 1962 and was command pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong was commander of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the Moon. On July 20, Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the lunar surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin. They spent about 2.5 hours exploring before returning to the command module and returning to Earth.

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Biografi Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 in Ohio and had a lifelong love of aviation from a young age. He studied aeronautical engineering and became a test pilot for NASA, flying over 200 aircraft including the X-15 rocket plane. Armstrong joined the astronaut program in 1962 and was command pilot of Gemini 8 in 1966. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong was commander of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to land on the Moon. On July 20, Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the lunar surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin. They spent about 2.5 hours exploring before returning to the command module and returning to Earth.

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Biografi Neil Armstrong

The owner of the full name Neil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta,
Ohio, USA. Neil Armstrong is the first child of Viola Louise Engel and Stephen Koenig Armstrong.

Armstrong loved planes and the world of aviation ever since his parents took him to an
aerospace exhibition. His love for the world of aerospace grew even greater when he was six years
old when his father invited him for the first time on a flight in Ohio. Ten years later, on his 16th
birthday, Armstrong received a certificate as a flight school student. Armstrong had started flying
solo before he even had a driver’s license.

In 1947, Armstrong continued his education at Purdue University, West Lafauette, Indiana on a
scholarship from the US Navy and studied aeronautical engineering. When the Korean War broke
out in 1950, Armstrong was also deployed to the front. The plane was hit, but Armstrong was still
able to save himself. After the war was over, Armstrong continued his education until graduating in
1955 and was recruited by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or NACA, the
forerunner of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). During his time at NACA, Neil
Armstrong served as one of the test pilots and has tested up to 200 models of high-speed aircraft,
including the X-15 capable of speeds of up to more than 6,000 kilometers per hour.

In 1962, Armstrong officially joined the space program and became an astronaut. He was
assigned to the Gemini 8 space mission as a command pilot. The Gemini 8 mission is to pilot a two-
vehicle engagement maneuver in space. On March 16, 1966, the Gemini 8 mission was successful,
despite experiencing technical difficulties. The results of the Gemini 8 mission also played a role in
the success of Apollo 11 to the moon which departed in 1969. Precisely on July 16, 1969, the first
manned spacecraft landing mission to the moon, Apollo 11 was launched with three astronauts,
namely Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins. Four days later, the Apollo 11
space mission successfully landed the lunar module probe with Armstrong and Aldrin while Collins
waited in the lunar command module.

After landing on the lunar surface, Armstrong as a pilot had the honor to step out and set his
feet for the first time on the moon, followed by Adrian. The two were on the moon for about 2.5
hours, placing scientific instruments and collecting samples of the lunar surface, as well as taking
numerous photos. After nearly 21 hours on the lunar surface, Armstrong re-flighted the lunar
module and rejoined the command module in lunar orbit before beginning his return journey to
Earth on July 21. The return trip from the lunar orbit back to the earth’s atmosphere took three days
with a landing in the waters of the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969.

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