Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong’s birth was on the 5^th of August 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947 he started studying aerospace engineering at a university named Purdue University. While he was studying aerospace engineering, he got a call up from the navy on January 26, 1949 and he accepted the offer. Neil Armstrong first witnessed the Korean War on August 29, 1951. He flew 78 missions in the war with a total of 121 hours in the air and it was most in January 1952. He left the navy on August 23 1952, and became a lieutenant for the United States Naval Reserve. Armstrong was in the right-hand seat of B-29 Superfortress on March 22, 1956.

Neil Armstrong graduated with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1955. While in Purdue he met Janet Elizabeth Shearon and they were married on January 28, 1956 at the Congregational Church. The couple had three children together – Eric, Karen, and Mark. Karen died of pneumonia, related to her weakened health, on January 28, 1962.

Neil Armstrong’s first flight was in 1966. Neil was on the moon with a man named Buzz Aldrin. Neil Armstrong’s second and last flight was on July 20, 1969 when he went to the moon; it took him 8 days, 14 hours and 12 minutes in space. Neil’s full name is Neil Alden Armstrong. Neil Armstrong is part German, Scotish & Irish. Buzz and Neil stayed exploring the moon for over 21 hours.

After the Apollo mission in 1971, Neil Armstrong started teaching about Aerospace Engineering at a University. But after working for 8 years he resigned in 1979 due to the fact that the structure had changed at the university.

Neil Armstrong’s flight was a year after his farther died and 9 months after his mother died. He met his 2^nd wife at a golf tournament in 1992 and her name was Carol Held Knight. They were married in Ohio, June 12^th 1994. Neil Armstrong’s school that he learned in (not the one he taught in) announced that their new engineering hall wil be named the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering in his honor in October 2004.

Neil’s parents are Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel, and his siblings are June and Dean. The family had to move to 20 different towns in 15 years because of the company Stephen worked with.

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Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon and this is his story.

Neil Alden Armstrong was born on the 5^th August 1930 in Wapakoneta United States, he was born to Stephen his dad and Viola his mum.

He had a brother and a sister they were called June and Dean, sadly both of his parents died in 1990. On the 28^th January 1956 Neil married a woman called Janet Elizabeth Shearon when he was 26.

On the 15th August 1957 Neil took his first flight in a rocket plane when he was only 27! When Neil was 35 he was aboard Gemini 8 (which was his rocket) and that marked his first space flight.

Neil was joined by two other astronauts called Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, and then they all started their way to the moon.

The 20th July 1969 was the day when a man from Earth stepped for the first time on the Moon. On the 24th July they all returned to Earth, and then Neil won a presidential medal for freedom.

On the 12th June 1994 Neil married a lady called Carol Knight, this was his second marriage.

By Hannah