‘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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Former astronaut John Glenn bows as he is introduced by President Jimmy Carter in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Cape Canaveral on Oct. 1, 1978. Glenn and other spacemen received medals from the president. Others are, from left, Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Charles Conrad, Alan Shepard and Mrs. Betty Grissom, whose husband died in the Apollo 1 fire. (AP Photo/Jeff Taylor)
Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
