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The First Man On The Moon's Birthday

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Neil Alden Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August 5th, 1930. Among his achievements, Neil would serve as a Navy pilot during the Korean war, a pilot in the X-15 rocket plane program, the Gemini 8 mission (completing the first manual space-docking manoeuvre) and the Apollo 11 mission where he became the first man to walk on the Moon.

Source: http://www.exn.ca

Posted:  2001-12-08  12:00:12 AM

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