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Neil Alden Armstrong ... astronaut, aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the moon. Armstrong was doing TV ...

Neil Alden Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930, on his grandfather’s farm near Wapakoneta, Ohio, and had a happy and conventional upbringing. His civil servant father, Stephen Armstrong, audited ...

With the passing of Neil Alden Armstrong, we have lost a modest, self-professed “pocket-protector” engineer with a willingness to take on an apparently impossible task, subjugate the ...

Neil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the eldest of three children of Stephen Armstrong, a local government accountant who frequently moved his family as he followed ...

[Lunar Legacy: Apollo Moon Mission Photos] If indeed the N.A. Armstrong listed on the car's tag is the same as the Neil (Alden) Armstrong who commanded the Apollo 11 first lunar landing mission in ...

Aug. 5, 1930: Neil Alden Armstrong is born on a farm near Wapakoneta in western Ohio. He was licensed to fly at 16, before he got his driver's license. 1947: Armstrong enrolls at Purdue University ...

Neil Alden Armstrong was 38 years old at the time and even though he had fulfilled one of mankind's age-old quests that placed him at the pinnacle of human achievement, he did not revel in his ...

Neil Alden Armstrong was 38 years old at the time and even though he had fulfilled one of mankind's age-old quests that placed him at the pinnacle of human achievement, he did not revel in his ...

You can follow his frequent status updates at the CBS News Space page. Neil Alden Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon and an enduring icon of the the space age for taking "one giant leap ...