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Who Was Neil Armstrong? (Grades K-4)
This article is for students grades K-4.
Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon.
Neil armstrong biography fourth graders
He was an astronaut. He flew on two space missions. One was Apollo 11. That mission landed on the moon. He was also an engineer, a pilot and a college professor.
Neil Armstrong was born on Aug. 5, 1930. He was born in Ohio.
He had a brother and a sister.
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He was in the Boy Scouts of America. Armstrong flew in an airplane when he was 6. That flight made him love airplanes. He attended Blume High School in Ohio.
Armstrong went to college at Purdue University.
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While he was in college, he left to serve in the U.S. Navy. He flew planes during the Korean War. Then he came back to college and finished the degree he had started. He later earned a master’s degree too.
Before he was an astronaut, Armstrong worked for a group that studied airplanes.
That group later became part of NASA.
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He flew several planes for them. He also helped design planes. One