TODAY IS THE BIRTHDAY OF NEIL ARMSTRONG THE FIRST MAN TO WALKED ON THE MOON

USPA NEWS - Today is Neil Armstrong's birthday." NASA honours and remember his one small step and the legacy he left behind". Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut, the first man to walk on the moon in 1969. His sentence became a famous quote “ That´s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.“

NEIL ARMSTRONG THE FIRST MAN TO WALK ON THE MOON----------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930. Today is Neil Armstrong's birthday.We honour and remember his one small step and the legacy he left behind. He died in August 25, 2012 after becoming a legend for the world. Neil Armstrong was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station, now known as the Dryden Flight Research Center, where he logged over 900 flights. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California. A participant in the U.S. Air Force's Man in Space Soonest and X-20 Dyna-Soar human spaceflight programs, Armstrong joined the NASA Astronaut Corps in 1962. He made his first space flight, as command pilot of Gemini 8, in 1966, becoming NASA's first civilian astronaut to fly in space. On this mission, he performed the first docking of two spacecraft, with pilot David Scott.

THE MISSION APOLLO 11-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On July 16 1969, the huge, 363-feet tall Saturn V rocket launches on the Apollo 11 mission from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:32 a.m. EDT The American flag heralded the launch of Apollo 11, the first Lunar landing mission, on July 16, 1969. The massive Saturn V rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin at 9:32 a.m. EDT. Four days later, on July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon's surface.----------------------- --------------------------------------NEIL ARMSTRONG SPEAKS AT THE US CONGRESS Neil Amstrong, Appolo 11 Commander, speaks to Congress at a ceremony that honoured fellow astronauts John Glenn, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Each received a Congressional Gold Medals during the ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on November 16, 2011. NASA CENTER RENAMED IN HONOUR OF NEIL A. AMSTRONG---------------------------------------------------------------- President barack Obama has signed the resolution renaming NAS´s Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Amstrong Flight Research Center. Source NASA Research Center