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.
He was a Blume High School student. He completed his schooling in 1947 and commenced studying aerospace engineering in Purdue University.
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.
In the November of 1960, Armstrong was selected as one of the pilot consultants for a military space plane called X-20 Dyna-Soar.
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
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.
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.
On 24th of July, they returned to their mother Earth.
In 1970, he was honored with the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy.
He resigned from NASA in 1971 and started working at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.