Neil Armstrong, the civilian astronaut who became the first human to set foot on another celestial body, died Saturday from complications from a heart bypass operation he underwent two weeks ago. He was 82. Armstrong lived with his wife Carol in Cincinnati. There was no immediate word on the plan for remembering the self-described "nerdy engineer" who did his utmost to avoid the hero worship the world nevertheless bestowed upon him. It's safe to say Armstrong carried the dreams of the world and the prestige of his country with him (and Buzz Aldrin, of course) when he saw where the Eagle's guidance system had picked for a landing site, snapped off the automatic system and manually guided the Lunar Excursion Module over a crater full of boulders to the relative safety of the Sea of Tranquility. That's when he uttered the second most famous line of the mission: "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." It had 30 seconds of fuel left.
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