By Tarik Elbarakah
Morocco World News
Agadir, Morocco, August 25, 2012
Neil Armstrong, the American astronaut who became the first man to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, ABC news reports.
It was back on July 20, 1969, when half a billion people watched via television in live Armstrong planting his left foot on the moon?s surface and said his everlasting words,? that?s one small step for a man, one giant leap for humanity?.
The world kept watching as Armstrong and his crew members of Apollo 11 bounding around in the moon?s light gravity, taking photographs and setting up experiments.
The president of the United States at the time Richard Nixon called Apollo 11?s eight- day trip to the moon ?the greatest week in the history of the world since the creation.?
The trip was a fulfillment of John F. Kennedy?s challenge when he addressed to congress: ?I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.?
Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930, in the small town of Wapakoneta, Ohio. He had served as a naval aviator in the Korean War and had an engineering degree from Purdue University.
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