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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/July 21, 2019 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 12:41, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Armstrong in 1969

Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) was an astronaut and aeronautical engineer who was the first person to walk on the Moon. He was a United States Naval Aviator who served in the Korean War and later worked as a test pilot. Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in the second group, selected in 1962, and made his first spaceflight as command pilot of Gemini 8 in March 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. During this mission with pilot David Scott, he completed the first docking of two spacecraft. In July 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin performed the first crewed Moon landing while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module Columbia. Stepping onto the lunar surface, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." He was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Space Medal of Honor, and Congressional Gold Medal. (Full article...)