Apollo 11 mission. The Apollo 11 was planned to set two men on the moon and they did. He has two college degrees. He has a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Purdue
University. He also has a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of
Southern California. He was born August 5, 1930 Wapakoneta OH and died in August 25, 2012
Cincinnati OH. Neil had 3 children Karen, Mark, and Eric Armstrong. He married Janet Shearon but divorced after some time. He served in U.S Navy from 1949, 1952. Armstrong was an eagle scout and had his pilot license before his driver’s license. He earned a navy scholarship to
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He developed a fascination with flight at an early age and earned his student pilot’s license when he was 16. In 1947, Armstrong began his studies in aeronautical engineering at Purdue University on a U.S. Navy scholarship.
On the day Neil Armstrong came back he was welcomed with over a billion people and a parade along with a lot of medals. Armstrong was a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test
Pilots and the Royal Aeronautical Society; Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the International Astronautics Federation. When he was 10 years old,
Armstrong was paid $1 to mow the cemetery in Wapakoneta. He eventually made enough money to pay his 9$ an hour flight lessons. Armstrong worked as a “gofer” for pilots at the local airport. One day Armstrong helped a pilot push his sleek Luscombe plane to the gas pumps, cleaned its windows and polished its gleaming surfaces, which earned him a ride and a flying lesson. Neil had a net worth of around 3 million dollars. He was the eldest of three children of Stephen and Viola Engel Armstrong. Airplanes drew his interest