Neil Armstrong

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  • Birth

  • First airplane ride

  • He got his pilot licence

    He also turned 16 that day

  • He starts going to Purdue University

    He gets a scholarship through naval aviation scholarship

  • He is called up for active duty

    He was in the Korean War

  • He makes his first air craft carrier landing

    Off the coast of Hawaii

  • His plane was struck by enemy fire

    He was forced to eject but he was OK

  • He becomes a research pilot

    He becomes a research pilot for NASA Lewis Center (now the Glenn Center) in Cleveland Ohio

  • He gets married with Janet Shearon

  • Eric Armstrong is born

    Eric is also known as "Ricky"

  • Karen Anne Armstrong is born

    She also called "Muffie"

  • Karen Anne dies of a brain tumor at age three

    it was Armstrong and Janette anniversary

  • Mark Armstrong is born

  • His first space flight

    Gemini VIII

  • NASA announces that he will be captain of Apollo 11

  • Niel Armstrong first sets foot on moon

    He first set foot at 10:56 EDT

  • Apollo 11 launches

    the space ship launches at 9:32 A.M.

  • He resins from NASA

    But he takes a job at the University of Cincinnati

  • Him and Jan divorce

  • Armstrong marries Carol Knight

  • First authorized biograghy was published

    the name of the book was First Man

  • Death of Neil Armstrong

    The cause of his death was complications following his cardiovascular surgery