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First man on Moon, Neil Armstrong, dies at age 82
Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong, shown here in February 2012, has died age 82.
NEIL Armstrong, who led the Apollo 11 spacecraft and became the first man to set foot on the Moon, has died from complications after heart surgery.Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong, shown here in February 2012, has died age 82.
Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon.
The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away was 82 when he died.
In those first few moments on the moon, during the climax of heated space race with the then-Soviet Union, Armstrong stopped in what he called "a tender moment" and left a patch commemorate NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.
news.com.auThis kind of hit me as a bit of a shocker this morning. 🙁
RIP.
