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On August 5, 1930, Neil Armstong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio. His parents were Sephen Armstrong and Viola Engel. He was of Scotish-Irish and German descent, and had two younger siblings.
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Neil Armstrong, when he was six, got to ride on his first plane ever. This took place in Warren, Ohio, on a Ford Trimotor.
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When Neil was 14, his father moved to Wapakoneta, where he was forced to attend Blume High School.
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When Neil Armstong was 15, Neil Armstong earned his first flight certificate before he earned driver's license.
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In 1947, Neil began to study aerospace engineering at Purdue University. He had been accepted into MIT, but the only engineer he knew dissuaded him from going.
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On January 26, 1949, Neil was called up to the Navy, which required him to go to the Naval Air Station Pensacola for flight training. This training lasted 18 months, where he qualified for carrier landing aboard the USS Cabot and USS Wright.
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On January 26, 1949, Neil was called up to the Navy, which required him to go to the Naval Air Station Pensacola for flight training. This training lasted 18 months, where he qualified for carrier landing aboard the USS Cabot and USS Wright.
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Two weeks after his 20th birthday, Armstrong was informed by letter he was a fully qualified Naval Aviator.
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Neil was assigned to Fighter Squadron 51, an all jet squad, in which he rode on his first jet, an F9F-2B Panther.
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In June, he made his first jet carrier landing on the USS Essex. He was also promoted from midshipman to ensign.
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Armstrong first saw action in the Korean War on August 29, 1951, as an escort for a photo reconnaissance plane over Songjin.
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On September 3, 1951, Armstrong, while he was making a low bombing run at about 350 mph was hit by anti-aircraft fire. He then collided with a pole, which sliced off a wing.
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At the age of 22, Armstong left the Navy and became a Lieutenant, Junior Grade in the United States Naval Reserve
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Armstrong graduated with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1955.
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In 1955, Neil was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University. He also received from the University of Southern California in 1970, a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering.
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Following his graduation from Purdue, Armstrong decided to become an experimental research test pilot.He was accepted into the Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, where Armstrong began working at Lewis Field in March 1955.
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While at Purdue, he met Janet Elizabeth Shearon, who was majoring in home economics.They were married on January 28, 1956 at the Congregational Church in Wilmette, Illinois.
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Armstrong's first flight in a rocket plane was on August 15, 1957, in the Bell X-1B, to an altitude of 11.4 miles (18.3 km).
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Neil was selected for the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest program in 1958.
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In November 1960 Armstrong was chosen as part of the pilot consultant group for the X-20 Dyna-Soar, a military space plane.
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On March 15, 1962 he was named as one of six pilot-engineers who would fly the space plane when it got off the design board.
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Armstrong's astronaut application had arrived about a week past the June 1, 1962 deadline, but Dick Day, with whom Armstrong had worked closely, saw the late arrival of the application, and slipped it into the pile before anyone noticed.
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on September 13, 1962 and asked if he was interested in joining the NASA Astronaut Corps as part of what the press dubbed "the New Nine"
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The crew assignments for Gemini 8 were announced on September 20, 1965, with Armstrong as Command Pilot and David Scott as Pilot.
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It was to be the most complex yet, with a rendezvous and docking with the unmanned Agena target vehicle, the second American extra-vehicular activity by Scott
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Having already trained for two flights, Armstrong was quite knowledgeable about the systems and was more in a teaching role for the rookie backup Pilot, William Anders.
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On January 27, 1967, the date of the Apollo 1 fire, Armstrong was in Washington, D.C. for the signing of the United Nations Outer Space Treaty.
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Slayton offered him the post of commander of Apollo 11 on December 23, 1968, as 8 orbited the Moon.
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A March 1969 meeting determined that Armstrong would be the first person on the Moon
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The landing on the surface of the moon occurred at 20:17:39 UTC on July 20, 1969.
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Neil Armstong turned and set his left boot on the surface at 2:56 UTC July 21, 1969
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Neil Armstong resigned from his job and NASA as a whole in 1971
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The official job title he received at Cincinnati was University Professor of Aerospace Engineering.
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After teaching for eight years, he resigned in 1979 without explaining his reason of leaving
