WE REMEMBER NEIL ARMSTRONG
Today we remember Neil Armstrong, who passed away (OTD) in 2012.
Born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1930, the "reluctant American hero" would be the first to ever set foot on the moon.
Armstrong served during the Korean War as a Navy fighter pilot earning two gold stars, the Air Medal for combat and others flying 78 missions. After the war, he served in the Naval Reserve for eight years and then became an experimental research test pilot at the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland before he moved to Edwards Air Force Base in California.
NASA selected Armstrong for “New Nine” in 1962 and flew aboard Gemini 8 performing the first successful docking of two vehicles in space before making history again as the first person to walk on the moon aboard Apollo 11 delivering those famous words "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind” on July 21, 1969.
Shortly after Apollo 11, Armstrong announced that he did not plan to fly in space again and accepted a teaching position in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He received many honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, and was inducted into the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame in 1993.
Neil A. Armstrong died from complications of heart bypass surgery at the age of 82.

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