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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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File photo dated 14/10/1969 of (from left to right) Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, the America's moon-landing astronauts of Apollo 11 arriving at Heathrow Airport in London from Berlin for a 24-hour visit to Britain during their 22-nation 38 day world tour. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died, his family said.



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