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‘Nerdy engineer’ Neil Armstrong: a life in 60 photos

by | 25th, August 2012

NEIL Armstrong has died. The Korea war fighter pilot and self-titled “nerdy engineer” was for a time the most famous man in the world. You know what he did. On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Neil Armstrong and the Nasa team made humanity look up…

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The Apollo 11 astronauts are shown as they appeared on CBS? Face the Nat on telecast from Houston, Texas on August 17, 1969. Command Module pilot Michael Collins, right, gestures as he explains part of the flight. Listening from left is Walter Cronkite, CBS News managing Editor; Lunar Module pilot Edwin E. Aldrin and Commander Neil A. Armstrong. (AP Phto/BH)



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