About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Neil Armstrong, SM-65 Atlas, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Gemini 10, Surveyor 1, Surveyor 2, Luna 12, Luna 11, Luna 13, Luna 10, Saturn IB, Jim Lovell, Pete Conrad, Gemini 9A, David Scott, Gemini 8, Thomas Patten Stafford, Gemini 11, John Young, John P. Healey, Eugene Cernan, AS-201, Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Gemini 12, AS-203, Agena target vehicle, AS-202, Lunar Orbiter 1, A-004, Soyuz, Kosmos 108, Kosmos 137, Kosmos 135, Lunar Orbiter 2, Kosmos 119, Kosmos 106, Kosmos 116, Kosmos 123, Venera 3. Excerpt: Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) is an American aviator and former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, and United States Naval Aviator. He was the first person to set foot on the Moon. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was in the United States Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he flew over 900 flights in a variety of aircraft. As a research pilot, Armstrong served as project pilot on the F-100 Super Sabre A and C variants, F-101 Voodoo, and the Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. He also flew the Bell X-1B, Bell X-5, North American X-15, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart, B-47 Stratojet, KC-135 Stratotanker and Paresev. He graduated from Purdue University and the University of Southern California. A participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man In Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962. His first spaceflight was the NASA Gemini 8 mission in 1966, for which he was the command pilot, becoming one of the first U.S. civilians to fly in space. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft with pilot David Scott....
