Armstrong became the first astronaut to set foot on the moon and the first human member to leave footprints on an alien planet on July 26th, 1969. His partner buzz aldrin also became the second person to return safely after landing on the moon. They stayed on the surface of the moon for two and a half hours.

Shortly after the Apollo 1 1 mission, Armstrong announced that he would not go into space again. 1March served as deputy director of the Office of Advanced Studies, and 197 1 August, resigned from NASA and became a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati.

20 12 died of complications of heart bypass surgery on August 25th at the age of 82. His family said in a statement that Armstrong died of complications after heart bypass surgery in early August.

Extended data, human landing on the moon

1On July 20th, 969, the Apollo module landed on the surface of the moon and started the activities of landing on the moon in human history. By 1972, man had landed on the moon six times and made a series of scientific investigations on the moon, which made his understanding of the moon more comprehensive and in-depth.

Since the 1950s, the achievements of human exploration of the moon have far exceeded the ground observation for centuries. The success of "Apollo" landing on the moon is the crystallization of human science, which initiated a new era of human understanding of the moon.

With the development of science and technology, it will be possible for human beings to establish laboratories flying along the orbit of the moon, and huge astronomical telescopes will also observe the sky from the space without air on the moon; It is also possible for human beings to use the moon as a foothold to set off for distant planets.

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