One of the most famous astronomer of the world, was just an ordinary man who lived in secrecy and wanted to get out of the limelight although he achieved one of the most difficult fate a man could ever dreamed of.
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon during the heights of the NASA Space program. He was described as a quiet self-described nerdy engineer.
The Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the man credited for one of the most famous quotes in aviation history which states that “That’s one small step (for) a man. A big leap for mankind.” Neil Armstrong have already died at the age of 82 after complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.
Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. The success of the Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins.
For the past years, Neil Armstrong and his team were always commemorated for their achievement but there are only few articles  that give credit to them or make a research regarding Neil Armstrong early years before becoming one of the most famous figures in space exploration.
Neil Armstrong was former Navy fighter pilot and he had a series of accomplishments that included piloting the X-15 rocket plane and making the first space docking during the Gemini 8 mission, which included a successful emergency splashdown.
He was also one of the closest friend of astronaut and senator John Glenn who admired Armstrong so much during the time when they were together. John Glenn described Armstrong as “exceptionally brilliant” with technical matters.
Neil Armstrong was just an ordinary boy when he was born on August 5, 1930, on a farm near Wapakoneta in Western Ohio. He first make an airplane ride at the early age of 6 and was fascinated with aviation by building his own model airplanes.
During his early days he  worked at a pharmacy and took flying lessons. He was licensed to fly at 16, before he got his driver’s license.
As a student at Purdue University he studied Aernautical Engineering but was called to duty during Korean War with a total of 78 combat missions.
Armstrong was backup commander for the historic Apollo 8 mission at Christmastime in 1968. In that flight, Commander Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell and Bill Anders circled the moon 10 times, and paving the way for the lunar landing seven months later.
In 1970, Armstrong was appointed deputy (–foul word(s) removed–)ociate administrator for aeronautics at NASA but left the following year to teach aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
