‘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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Astronauts David R. Scott, pilot, left, and Neil A. Armstrong, command pilot, sit in their Gemini 8 spacecraft atop their booster at Cape Kennedy, Fla., March 16, 1966. One of the objectives of the scheduled three-day mission is to rendezvous and dock with the Gemini Agena target vehicle (GATV). The Gemini VIII spacecraft was launched at 11:41 a.m. EST. (AP Photo/NASA)
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