‘Nerdy engineer’ Neil Armstrong: a life in 60 photos
by Anorak | 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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Neil Armstrong, first man to set foot on the moon, faces a battery of newsmen, photographers, television and radio reporters, as the Apollo 11 crew left the lunar receiving laboratory, Manned Spacecraft center in Houston, Texas on August 11, 1969, ending their quarantine period. (AP Photo)
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