First man on the moon dies

Former
U.S. astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the
first man on the moon, has died at the
age of 82, NBC reported on Saturday. Armstrong underwent a heart-bypass
surgery earlier this month, just two
days after his birthday on August 5, to
relieve blocked coronary arteries. As commander of the Apollo 11
mission, Armstrong became the first
human to set foot on the moon on July
20, 1969. As he stepped on the moon's
dusty surface, Armstrong said: "That's
one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." The Apollo 11
moon mission turned
out to be Armstrong's last space
flight. The following year he was
appointed to a desk job, being named
NASA's deputy associate
administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and
technology. He left NASA a year later to become
a professor of engineering at the
University of Cincinnati. The former astronaut lived in the
Cincinnati area with his wife, Carol.