American astronaut Neil Armstrong has died at the age of 82,
according to NBC News. Armstrong recently had heart surgery,
according to NBC News. Neil Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930 in
Wakaponeta, Ohio, according to Wikipedia.com. He was a Naval
Aviator and served in the Korean War. After the war, he attended
Purdue University, where he met his first wife, Janet Elizabeth
Shearon. The couple had a son, Eric, and daughter, Karen. Karen
died in 1959 from an inoperable brain tumor, according to
Biography.com. Shearon and Armstrong divorced in 1994, according
to Biography.com. Armstrong made his way into the history books
on July 20, 1969, when he became the first man to walk on the
moon during the Apollo 11 space mission with fellow astronaut
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. According to NBC News, Armstrong spent
three hours walking on the moon. It was during that moonwalk
that he said the now famous words, "That's one small step for
man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong married his wife
second wife, Carol, in 1999, a