NBC - Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after heart surgery and days after his 82nd birthday. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon ...
Former astronaut Neil Armstrong, whose 1969 moon landing transformed human exploration and made him the most famous aviator since Charles Lindbergh, spent the following decades shunning the limelight.
Neil Armstrong has died at age 82, and if anyone needs reminding - not that anyone really does - of possibly the greatest moment in TV history, then here it is: The walk on the moon, July 20, 1969.