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Neil Armstrong was born to father Stephen and mother Viola. When he first started walking, no one must have dreamt, he would walk on the moon someday.
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He was a Blume High School student. He completed his schooling in 1947 and commenced studying aerospace engineering in Purdue University.
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Armstrong took his first flight in a rocket plane on August 15, 1957, in the Bell X-1B, to a height of 18.3 kilometers.
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In the November of 1960, Armstrong was selected as one of the pilot consultants for a military space plane called X-20 Dyna-Soar.
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On March 15, 1962 he was in the list of the six pilot-engineers who would fly the space plane once the plane was ready
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In 1969, he became a part of NASA. In the month of January of the same year, he was chosen to be a member of the Apollo 11 mission. They were going to make history on successfully landing on moon.
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20th July 1969 was "The Day", the day when a man on earth for the first time stepped on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first earthly being to step on the moon.
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On 24th of July, they returned to their mother Earth.
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In 1970, he was honored with the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy.
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He resigned from NASA in 1971 and started working at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.