First man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, dies at 82

One giant leap: Neil Armstrong, who made the first mission to the moon in 1969 and was the first to step foot on the lunar surface, has died, aged 82 Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died on Saturday [Aug 25] at the age of 82, after suffering complications from heart surgery, NBC News is reporting. Earlier this month, the former NASA astronaut had undergone heart surgery. He famously uttered the quote moments after setting foot on the lunar surface: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”.
A statement from the family says he died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures. It doesn't say where he died. As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. The legendary astronaut was born on August 5, 1930, near Wapakoneta, Ohio. He went on to work in the military, pilot planes, and eventually, spacecrafts. During the historic mission on July 20, 1969, nearly half a billion people tuned in to watch the black and white mission to the moon, where Armstrong, joined by Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, spent some two hours loping around on the eerie grey surface. He radioed back to Earth the historic news of 'one giant leap for mankind.' In all, 12 Americans walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972. However, his Apollo 11 moon mission turned out to be Armstrong's last space flight. The following year he was appointed to a desk job, being named NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology. He left NASA a year later to become a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati. Armstrong and his wife married in 1999 and made their home in the Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill, but he has largely stayed out of public view in recent years.