Neil Alden Armstrong, born on August 5th, 1930 in Wapakoneta in Ohio, is an astronaut, test pilot, aviator of United States Navy and American professor. He is the first man to have posed the foot on the Moon on July 21st, 1969.

Its first space flight on board Gemini 8 took place in 1966, flight for which it carried the role of pilot-commander. During this mission, it carried out the first manual mooring of two spacecrafts with the pilot “Dave” Scott. The second space flight of Armstrong was as a commander of the famous mission Apollo 11 on July 20th, 1969. At the time of this mission, him and Buzz Aldrin are gone down on the surface from the Moon in the lunar module Apollo and devoted two hours twenty to explore while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the module of order and Apollo service. Armstrong accepted Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

Before becoming astronaut, this graduate of the Purdue University worked in the marine of the United States and took part in the war of Korea. After the war, it was useful as test pilot with the High-Speed Flight Station of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), site from now on known like Dryden Flight Research Center, where it carried out more than 900 flights on more than 200 different apparatuses [1] like North American F-100 Super Sabers (A and C), McDonnell F-101 Voodoo and Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. It also flew on the Beautiful X-1B, Beautiful X-5, North American X-15, Republic F-105 Thunderchief, Convair F-106 Delta Dart, Boeing B-47 Stratojet, Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and NASA