Walter and Armstrong.

                                                      Walter, Hans Ulrich
Hans Ulrich Walter (born 9 February 1954, Iserlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) - German scientist, 5th astronaut Germany.                                                                                                                                                                               Education.
After graduating from high school in Iserlohn in 1972 and a two-year service in the Bundeswehr as an instructor of Army Air Defence School Ulrich Walter he entered the University of Cologne. In 1980 he received a degree in experimental physics, and in 1985 - a doctorate in solid-state physics.

In 1985-1987. He worked at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley.
                                                           Space Training.
Ulrich Walter was one of the five selected candidates. From 1988 to 1990 he passed general space training at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Ulrich made on him more than 1,300 flights.

In September 1990, he was assigned to the crew as a payload specialist. In parallel with the passage of training in 1991-1992. He was one of the candidates from the German ESA astronaut, but was not credited.
                                                    Flight on the Colombia.
His only space flight Ulrich Walter made April 26 - May 6, 1993 on the US space shuttle "Columbia» (STS-55). Laboratory payload was Spacelab D-2. It was carried out about 90 experiments in the field of natural sciences, physics, robotics, astronomy, the study of the earth's atmosphere. Ulrich Walter spent the flight 9 days 23 hours 39 minutes 59 seconds.
                                                           Follow-up.

In 1993, shortly after the flight left the astronaut DLR. In 1994 he headed the German archive of images from space DLR.Since March 2003, Ulrich Walter - Full Professor Technical University of Munich, headed by the Department of Aerospace Technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

                                                        Armstrong, Neil

Neil Alden Armstrong (born. Neil Alden Armstrong; 5 August 1930 - August 25, 2012) - American NASA astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, a naval pilot of the United States, the first man to walk on the moon (July 20, 1969 ) during the lunar expedition ship "Apollo 11".

                                                              Education.

In 1947 he graduated from high school in the city of Wapakoneta.While attending high school in the city was engaged in aviation school. The first pilot's license cadets received before graduation and before a driver's license.

From 1947 to 1955 he studied at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering.

In 1970 he received a Master of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California.

                                                          Military service.

He served in the US Air Force in the Lewis Research Center test pilot, experienced jets participated in the Korean War, which made 78 sorties a fighter-bomber Grumman F9F Panther was once shot down. Got Aeronautical medal and two gold stars.

                                                          Space Training.

In October 1958, he was enrolled in a group of pilots preparing for an experimental rocket planes in flights on the North American X-15. In November 1960, it made its first flight at rocket planes. Total to July 1962 made seven flights on these devices, but never reached the level of fifty miles, according to the US Air Force Space abroad.

                                                             Spaceflight.

In March 1966, he was the commander of the crew of a spacecraft "Gemini-8". During the flight, he and astronaut David Scott carried out the first docking of two spacecraft. The flight was terminated prematurely because of a serious failure of the orientation of the spacecraft propulsion system which threatens the life of astronauts.
                                                          A visit to the USSR.
 Nearly a year after his flight to the moon in May-June 1970, Neil Armstrong made a visit to the USSR. May 24 he arrived in Leningrad, where in the delegation of thirty-two senior staff and scientific experts NASA attended the XIII Annual Conference of the Committee on Space Research of the International Council for Science, which took place May 20-29.
                                                           After NASA.
He left his job at NASA in 1971, and then until 1979 he taught at the University of Cincinnati. From 1985 to 1986 he was a member of the National Committee on Astronautics. In 1986 he was vice-chairman of the Commission of Inquiry that examined the circumstances of the death of the space shuttle "Challenger". Do business, led the company AIL Systems, Inc.In 1999 he participated in the television project «BBC: Planet" as an expert.
                                                               Нonors.
Neil Armstrong had many awards, the highest of which are:

     1969 - Presidential Medal of Freedom
     1978 - Congressional Space Medal of Honor
     2009 - Gold medal of the US Congress

Included in the Astronaut Hall of Fame. Some of the awards included the Washington Award.