<!-- wp:gutenberg-custom-blocks/featured-media {"id":"5625428","url":"https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/small-step.jpg","caption":"Neil Armstrong steps ...

Hey there. I’m Neil Armstrong. These are my buddies Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. We’re descending at 17,500 miles per hour, temperatures of 3000 degrees surround this tiny metal capsule ...

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his handwritten letter, it was too late. The Apollo 11 commander and his crewmates ...

Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...