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Neil Armstrong
(1930–2012) was photographed in the cabin of the
Apollo 11
Lunar Module
after becoming the
first person to walk on the Moon
and spending two and a half hours outside the spacecraft along with
Buzz Aldrin
. Armstrong, an American
astronaut
, joined the
NASA Astronaut Corps
in 1962 after participating in the
U.S. Air Force
's
Man in Space Soonest
and
X-20 Dyna-Soar
human spaceflight
programs. He commanded Apollo 11, his second and final spaceflight, in July 1969, after commanding the
Gemini 8
Earth orbital mission in 1966.
Photograph:
Buzz Aldrin
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