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Answer 1

Born on August 5, 1930 on his grandparents’ farm in Auglaize County, Ohio, Neil Armstrong was the eldest of three children of Stephen and Viola Engel Armstrong. His family moved several times before they settled in Wapakoneta when Neil was 13. Neil fell in love with airplanes at the age of 6 when he took his first flight, in a Ford Tri-Motor “Tin Goose.” He worked at numerous jobs around town and at the nearby airport so he could start taking flying lessons at the age of 15 and on his 16th birthday he was issued a pilot's license. He hadn't even received his automobile license yet.

After he graduated from Blume High School in 1947, Neil entered Purdue University with a US Navy scholarship.

He began work on an aeronautical engineering degree, but in 1949, he was called to active duty with the Navy. He won his jet wings at Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida at the age of 20, the youngest pilot in his squadron. He was sent to Korea in 1950 and flew 78 combat missions in Navy Panther jets winning three Air Medals. Before the war was over, Armstrong returned to Purdue to complete his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1955.

In 1962, Armstrong was transferred to astronaut status. He served as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966, and along with David Scott, performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space by mating his Gemini 8 with an uninhabited Agena rocket.

In 1969, Neil Armstrong was commander of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission. Launching from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida at 9:32 a.m. EDT (13:32 UT) on a clear sunny Wednesday, 16 July 1969, the journey to the moon began. Armstrong was mission commander and was accompanied by Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, 38 (USAF Lt. Colonel who'd flown Gemini 10) and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin, Jr., 39 (USAF Colonel who'd flown Gemini 12). On July 20, 1969, Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the Lunar surface and shortly thereafter, Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the moon. After a brief visit, the astronauts returned to the orbiting spacecraft and all three men returned to Earth, splashing down safely on July 24, 1969.

From 1971 to 1979 Neil Armstrong was a professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Until 1992, he served as chairman of Computing Technologies for Aviation in Charlottesville, Virginia and then became chairman of the board of AIL Systems; an electronics systems company in New York. Armstrong served on the National Commission on space from 1985 to 1986. In 1986, he was appointed as vice chairman of the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger explosion. Neil Armstrong is married and has two children. He currently lives quietly on his farm in Lebanon, Ohio.

Answer 2

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