‘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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WIVES WELCOME SPACE HEROES - The Apollo 11 crew in their isolation trailer, left to right: Neil Armstrong; Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins are greeted by their wives, left to right: Pat Collins; Jan Armstrong and Joan Aldrin after the spacemen arrived at Ellington AFB near the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tex., early today, July 27, 1969. (AP-Photo/dt/stf)
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