Had his pilot’s license before he had a driver’s license. He earned a Navy scholarship to Purdue. His studies were interrupted when he was called to active duty just before the beginning of the Korean ...

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who has the distinction of being the first human to set foot on the moon was born today August 5 in 1930. Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin were the first human ...

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It's 55 years since US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people to walk on the Moon. Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the Moon on 20 July 1969. As he did so, he ...