Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta ... astronaut and administrator for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...
float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission, part of the Soviet Union’s attempt in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 ...
On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon ... then Soviet Union were in a race to conquer space, and walking on the Moon was the ultimate dream.