Watch the video of the Apollo 11 EVA below

Video courtesy/ NASA's official YouTube channel

The time spent on EVA during Apollo 11 was about two and a half hours, the shortest of any of the six Apollo lunar landing missions. Armstrong explained in a 2010 interview that NASA limited his moonwalk because they were unsure how the spacesuits would handle the extreme temperature of the Moon.

Recordings of Neil Armstrong's transmission, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind",  do not evidence the indefinite article "a" before "man", though NASA and Armstrong have maintained for years that static had obscured it. But after repeated listenings to recordings, he eventually admitted to have made that mistake and stated he "would hope that history would grant me leeway for dropping the syllable and understand that it was certainly intended, even if it was not said—although it might actually have been"

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Picture dated of 1969 showing US Astronauts Neil Armstrong (L) and Buzz Aldrin practicing in a simulator prior to their mission on the moon on the Apollo XI space mission. Pic/AFP

A proud former Boy Scout, Neil Armstrong carried his World Scout Badge to the Moon.

In 2010 he voiced the character of Dr. Jack Morrow in Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey, a 2010 animated educational sci-fi adventure film initiated by JPL/NASA through a grant from Jet Propulsion Lab.

Since the early 1980s, Neil Armstrong has been the subject of numeous hoaxes. One hoax  saying that he converted to Islam after hearing the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, while walking on the moon. The Indonesian singer Suhaemi wrote a song called "Gema Suara Adzan di Bulan" ("The Resonant Sound of the Call to Prayer on the Moon") which described Armstrong's conversion.