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In the years afterward, Armstrong retreated to the quiet of the classroom and his southwest Ohio farm.

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Thirty-four years?' Armstrong quipped, as if he hadn't given it a thought.Īt another joint appearance, the two embraced and Glenn commented: 'To this day, he's the one person on Earth, I'm truly, truly envious of.'Īrmstrong's moonwalk capped a series of accomplishments that included piloting the X-15 rocket plane and making the first space docking during the Gemini 8 mission, which included a successful emergency splashdown. Glenn introduced Armstrong and noted it was 34 years to the day that Armstrong had walked on the moon. John Glenn to lay wreaths on the graves of Wilbur and Orville Wright. He later joined former astronaut and Sen. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon, and quickly ducked out of the spotlight. When he appeared in Dayton in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage before 10,000 people packed into a baseball stadium. He testified before Congress and in an email to The Associated Press, Armstrong said he had 'substantial reservations,' and along with more than two dozen Apollo-era veterans, he signed a letter calling the plan a 'misguided proposal that forces NASA out of human space operations for the foreseeable future.'Īrmstrong's modesty and self-effacing manner never faded. 'And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession.'Ī man who kept away from cameras, Armstrong went public in 2010 with his concerns about President Barack Obama's space policy that shifted attention away from a return to the moon and emphasized private companies developing spaceships. 'I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer,' he said in February 2000 in one of his rare public appearances. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world.Īlthough he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA's forerunner and an astronaut, Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamor of the space program. The moonwalk marked America's victory in the Cold War space race that began Oct. 'The sights were simply magnificent, beyond any visual experience that I had ever been exposed to,' Armstrong once said. 'It was special and memorable but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do,' Armstrong told an Australian television interviewer in 2012.Īrmstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.

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In those first few moments on the moon, during the climax of heated space race with the then-Soviet Union, Armstrong stopped in what he called 'a tender moment' and left a patch commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action. 'That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind,' Armstrong said. His first words after setting foot on the surface are etched in history books and the memories of those who heard them in a live broadcast. It didn't say where he died.Īrmstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century's scientific expeditions. He was 82.Īrmstrong died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, a statement Saturday from his family said. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. CINCINNATI - Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made 'one giant leap for mankind' with a small step on to the moon.

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