60minutes Interview with Astronaut Neil Armstrong who was the first person to set foot on the Moon In July 1969. In 1957, he was selected for the US Air Force's Man In Space Soonest program. In November 1960 Armstrong was chosen as part of the pilot consultant group for the X-20 Dyna-Soar, a military space plane. He flew the North American X-15 on November 30, 1960, to a top altitude of 48840 ft (14.9 km) and a top speed of Mach 1.75 (1150 mph or 1810 km/h). Armstrong made seven flights in the X-15. He reached a top altitude of 207500 ft (63.2 km) in the X-15-3, and a top speed of Mach 5.74 (4000 mph or 6615 km/h) in the X-15-1. In September 1962 Armstrong was selected for NASA's Astronaut Group 2 or "The New Nine". His first spaceflight was aboard Gemini 8 in 1966, for which he was the command pilot. On this mission, he performed the first manned docking of two spacecraft together with pilot David Scott. Armstrong's second and last spaceflight was as mission commander of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission on July 20, 1969. On this mission, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface and spent 2½ hours exploring while Michael Collins remained in orbit in the Command Module. Armstrong announced shortly after the Apollo 11 flight that he did not plan to fly in space again. Armstrong served on two spaceflight accident investigations. The first was in 1970, after Apollo 13. In 1986 President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the Rogers Commission, which investigated <b>...</b>