Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer, best known for being the first human to set foot on the moon. Born in Ohio in 1930, he showed an early interest in aviation and went on to study aeronautical engineering at Purdue University. Armstrong served as a fighter pilot in the US Navy before joining NASA's astronaut program, where he made history on July 20, 1969, when he became the first person to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission.
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