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

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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Gemini 8 astronauts David Scott (left) and Neil Armstrong, wearing sun glasses and brown business suits, smile as they prepare to board plane for flight to the Manned Spacecraft, Houston, Tex., on March 21, 1966. (AP Photo)

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