Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the Moon in 1969. He performed the first docking of two spacecraft the mission was aborted after Armstrong used some of his re-entry control fuel to stabilize a dangerous roll caused by a stuck thruster.
See also: Neil Armstrong (disambiguation), Buzz Aldrin, First Man (film), First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, NASA lunar outpost concepts, and First Flights with Neil Armstrong.