As reported by History.com, by the end of his flying career, Neil Armstrong had piloted 200 different types of aircraft. Military service also gave him a strong sense of leadership and teamwork ...

Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

Neil Armstrong fell in love with flying when his ... Before he became an astronaut, Neil flew fighter planes for the navy and later tested rocket-powered planes. It was a very dangerous job ...

President Nixon on the phone with Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin. NASA The Space Race that culminated in Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin's "one small step" onto the moon in 1969 began ...

The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a model of the moon in 1969. Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin pose in front of ...

50 years after the historic Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon, the Smithsonian celebrates by releasing the results of a multi-year conservation effort of Neil Armstrong’s ...