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Neil Armstrong went to the moon is a spacecraft named the Apollo 11. The landing craft that actually carried him to the surface of the moon from lunar orbit was named The Eagle.
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After landing on the moon, Neil Armstrong continued to work at NASA in various capacities, including teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He also served on the boards of several corporations and organizations. Armstrong was known for being a private individual and maintained a relatively low profile after his historic moon landing.
Neil Armstrong was the astronaut responsible for landing the lunar lander known as The Eagle on the moon. During the automated landing there were rocks in the way at the planned landing site. Armstrong took over the controls, overrode the automated landing, hovered the spacecraft, picked a landing site, and landed under manual control.
No, there was no chimp on the first moon landing. The Apollo 11 mission that landed on the moon in 1969 was crewed by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, with Michael Collins remaining in orbit around the moon.