Astronaut neil armstrong biography
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Neil Armstrong Biography
Born: August 5, 1930
Wapakoneta, Ohio
American astronaut
The American astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon.
In one of the most famous remarks of the twentieth century, he called his first movements on the moon "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Childhood interests
Neil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930, near Wapakoneta, Ohio.
He was the eldest of three children of Stephen and Viola Engel Armstrong.
Astronaut neil armstrong biography
Airplanes drew his interest from the age of six, when he took his first airplane ride. He began taking flying lessons at age fourteen, and on his sixteenth birthday he was issued a pilot's license. A serious pilot even at that age, Armstrong built a small wind tunnel (a tunnel through which air is forced at controlled speeds to study the effects of its flow) in the basement of his home.
He also performed experiments using the model planes he had made. Through such a