Farewell Neil Armstrong, the Ultimate Test Pilot

Neil Armstrong -- who has died at the age of 82 -- was best known as the commander of Apollo 11, but his career at NASA began nearly a decade earlier as a research test pilot. A trained aerospace engineer, Armstrong was a self-described "white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer" who worked at the cutting edge of flight ...

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