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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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Gen. “Jimmy” Doolittle, left, famed World War II aviation, Eric Sloane, center, artist and Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, look over Sloane’s painting “Alone,” which depicts Charles Lindbergh’s trans–Atlantic solo flight 50 years ago, at the Air and Space Museum in Washington on Feb. 4, 1977, Lindberg’s 75th birth date. The painting will be auctioned off for the Charles A. Lindberg Fund’s grants to young scientists and explorers. In background is Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis.” (AP Photo)



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