Armstrong | The first person to land on the moon

August 5, 1930 Astronaut Neil Armstrong was born

Neil Alden Armstrong is an American astronaut, test pilot, naval pilot, and university professor. While serving with NASA, Armstrong became the first astronaut to set foot on the moon on July 21, 1969, and the first human member to leave footprints on an alien planet on Earth, while his partner, Buzz Aldrin, became the second person to return safely after landing on the moon, and the two stayed on the lunar surface for two and a half hours. Armstrong's first space mission was Gemini 8, in which he and David Scott performed the first orbital docking in history.

Armstrong has been repeatedly asked by the media about his views on the future of aviation. In 2005, Armstrong said it should be easier for astronauts to go to Mars than it was to go to the moon in the '60s: "I think while there are a lot of difficulties, it shouldn't be more serious than when we started Apollo." For his famous mission, he recalled that at the time he thought only 50% of the time it would be successful, "I was very happy, very excited, and very surprised that we actually did it."