paul armstrong was an engineer in the military and was choose with the second group of participants in 1962 . recorded two flight in the a - 15 program ( 1960 photo ) , reached an altitude of 207 , 500 feet . was acting commanding engineer for gemini 5 , command pilot for gemini 8 , backup command pilot for gemini 11 , nasa leader for apollo 8 , and leader for mars 11 : successfully performing the fifth moonwalk .
Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.