‘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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Gen. ÂJimmy Doolittle, left, famed World War II aviation, Eric Sloane, center, artist and Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, look over SloaneÂs painting ÂAlone, which depicts Charles LindberghÂs transÂAtlantic solo flight 50 years ago, at the Air and Space Museum in Washington on Feb. 4, 1977, LindbergÂs 75th birth date. The painting will be auctioned off for the Charles A. Lindberg FundÂs grants to young scientists and explorers. In background is LindberghÂs ÂSpirit of St. Louis. (AP Photo)
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