\<COLOUR 1> NAME: \<COLOUR 0> Neil Alden Armstrong
\<COLOUR 1> DATE OF BIRTH: \<COLOUR 0> August 5, 1930
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USA
\<COLOUR 1> FIRST FLIGHT: \<COLOUR 0> March 16, 1966; in Gemini 8
\<COLOUR 1> ACHIEVEMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> The Apollo 11 astronaut and the first human being to take a step on to another world - the Moon - on July 20, 1969: "That's one small step for a man," he said, "one giant leap for mankind"; Armstrong spent 21 hours on the surface; a former X-15 test pilot, Armstrong had joined the astronaut corps in 1962 and on his Gemini mission made the first docking in space.
