Engineering & invention
Neil Armstrong
NASA astronaut; Apollo 11 commander
Also known as Neil A. Armstrong
Photograph · Image credit
Who they are
Neil Armstrong commanded Apollo 11 and descended to the Moon with Buzz Aldrin in July 1969, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit. The mission combined launch, navigation, landing, surface work and rendezvous into a coordinated operation. Armstrong appears within that team achievement rather than as a substitute for the crew and institutions that made it possible.
He is a central participant in the first crewed lunar-landing milestone.
Selected contributions
- Commanded Apollo 11 and participated in the July 20 lunar landing with Buzz Aldrin.Source ↗
Primary records
Report · 1969
Apollo 11 mission report
NASA’s mission report covers Apollo 11’s preflight, flight and postflight activities. It is an official technical starting point for following the crew’s work within the larger mission; this description is limited to the catalogue’s stated scope.
NASA-TM-X-62633 / MSC-00171, November 1969; separate later report editions also exist.
Reading scope & citation
NTRS catalogue title, description, date and report-number fields inspected; report itself not read.
In the timeline
- Jul 20, 1969Apollo 11 lands people on the Moon
Biography sources & portrait credit
- Apollo 11 Mission Overview ↗NASA
- Apollo 11 mission report ↗NASA, Manned Spacecraft Center / NASA Technical Reports Server
Portrait credit
Unknown photographer. Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Via Wikimedia Commons.
Photograph. Cropped to 4:5, resized to 320 × 400 and converted to WebP.
Image source & identification ↗ · Public domain (U.S. federal government work) ↗
