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- He was also an aerospace
engineer, naval aviator, test pilot,
and university professor.
- Before becoming an astronaut,
Armstrong was an officer in the U.S.
Navy and served in the Korean War.
- He made his first space flight
as command pilot of Gemini 8 in
March 1966, becoming NASA's first
civilian astronaut to fly in space.
- He performed the first docking
of two spacecraft, with pilot David
Scott.
- His second and last
spaceflight was as commander of
Apollo 11, the first manned Moon
landing mission in July 1969.
Armstrong and Lunar Module pilot
Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar
surface and spent two and a half
hours outside the spacecraft, while
Michael Collins remained in lunar
orbit in the Command/Service Module.
- Along with Collins and Aldrin,
Armstrong was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by
President Richard Nixon.
- President Jimmy Carter presented
Armstrong the Congressional Space
Medal of Honor in 1978.
- Armstrong and his former
crewmates received the Congressional
Gold Medal in 2009.
- Armstrong died in Cincinnati,
Ohio, on August 25, 2012, at the age
of 82, after complications from
coronary artery bypass surgery.
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