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Neil A. Armstrong was born on January 20, 1930. He began his Nasa career in Ohio. He was a Naval Aviator during the years 1949 and 1952. He took place in the NACA in 1955. Over the next 17 years, he was an engineer, a test pilot, an astronaut and an administrator for the NACA. He was also a professor at the University of Cincinnati between 1971 and 1979.

"It suddenly struck me that that a tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." -Neil Armstrong



Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was born on January 20 in 1939. He has two sons and one daughter. He got a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1951 from The U.S. Military Acadmey. Prior to joining Nasa, Buzz flew 66 combat missions in F-86's while on duty in Korea. He was the lunar module pilot for Apollo 11. (The space craft that landed on the moon) He followed Neil onto the lunar surface.

"We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way" -Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin