‘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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Astronaut Neil Armstrong shown seated during a suiting up exercise March 9, 1966 at Cape Kennedy, Florida, in preparation for the Gemini 8 flight. (AP photo/stf)

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