Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died

SPACE - He was 82 years ...

Neil Armstrong joined the stars. The American, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday at the age of 82, reported Saturday NBC News. He died of complications from heart surgery, said his family.

Neil Armstrong, who lived with his wife Carol near Cincinnati (Ohio), had undergone heart surgery this early August two days after celebrating his 82nd birthday. That's one small step for a man but a giant leap for mankind As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, former astronaut became the first man to set foot on the moon, July 20, 1969.

That's one small step for a man but a giant leap for mankind, he had then said. Neil Armstrong had then spent nearly three hours on the satellite of the Earth with his traveling companion, Edwin Buzz Aldrin. Shortly after this mission, Armstrong ended his career as an astronaut in 1970 and was appointed assistant administrator for aeronautics at the headquarters of the U.S. space agency (Nasa). He left NASA next year to teach aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

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