Neil Armstrong had piloted 200 different types of aircraft. Military service also gave him a strong sense of leadership and ...

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 ...

His skill as a research and test pilot certainly impressed Buzz Aldrin ... never have been built without using the techniques Neil Armstrong helped pioneer on the Gemini VIII mission.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the moon ... Following graduation, Armstrong became an experimental research test pilot, flying more than 200 different models, ...

In this 1960 photo from the U.S. space agency, NASA test pilot Neil Armstrong is seen here next to the X-15 ship #1 after a research flight. Armstrong was a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952.

president of the Society for Experimental Test Pilots (SETP), based in Lancaster, Calif. "As much as Neil Armstrong did for the moon race, he and his generation of pilots did at least as much for ...

Neil Armstrong was a NASA astronaut and aeronautical ... University of Southern California in 1970.) Armstrong became a test pilot for NASA (then known as NACA, the National Advisory Committee ...

Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin ... Armstrong was the consummate test pilot who flew the fabled X-15 rocket plane to the edge of space and cooly overcame in ...

"I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late," Neil Armstrong told ... and once was shot down. As a test pilot for NASA and its predecessor, he ...

And think of Neil Armstrong, reluctant hero ... A fighter pilot in the Korean War, a test pilot and an engineering professor, he will also be remembered as the astronaut who fulfilled the goal ...

Within the fraternity of test pilots, however ... “First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong,” in 2005. If he raised his voice in public at all, it had only to do with space exploration ...