Neil Armstrong’s Birthday

Aug 05, 2022

OATI is celebrating the life and legacy of one of the most iconic Americans in history. Neil Armstrong was born on this day in 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He was a Navy pilot in the Korean War before joining NASA in 1962, where he flew on the Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 space missions. After becoming the first man to walk on the moon, he taught aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.