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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 ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Alden Armstrong, a shy, soft-spoken test pilot from Wapakoneta, Ohio — the all-American boy personified — stepped off the ladder and took his first “small step” on ...

He tries to explain that he's not the same man as Neil Alden Armstrong of nearby Indian Hill, but some people don't believe him. The non-astronaut Armstrong, who is 38, estimates he gets a phone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...