Who was the first Canadian astronaut to walk in space ?
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Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian to walk in space when he delivered Canadarm 2 to the International Space Station
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Launched on April 12, 1961, Vostok 1 took Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, and was the first orbital space flight.
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Armstrong, Neil Alden \n \n1930—, American astronaut, b. Wapakoneta, Ohio. A U.S. Navy fighter pilot during the Korean War, Armstrong subsequently became a test pilot for what was then the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in 1955. In 1962, already a veteran of the X-15, Armstrong became a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut and served as command pilot of the Gemini 8 mission. As commander of Apollo 11 (July 16—24, 1969), he was the first person (July 20 EDST) to step on the moon, saying: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." He taught aeronautical engineering at the Univ. of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979. In 1985, President Reagan appointed Armstrong to the National Commission on Space and in 1986 named him vice chairman of a panel to investigate the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger earlier that year
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No one else had flown around the moon. \n\nIts analogous to Lindy's flight across the atlantic. It may seem like they didn't accomplish much in hindsight, but consider the time -- no on from this planet had ever even approached another astronomic body. Much less, had anyone orbited it.\n\nThose of us who remember Apollo 8 (I think I was about 10) know the exhilaration of knowing the US had beat the pants off the Soviets. Star Trek was in its first season - good God, put it in perspective. We had 3 goddamn TV channels.
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by going to space in  a rocket.
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Apollo 13 and when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
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The first U.S. manned space mission:\n\nMission: Mercury 3 (first manned flight)\nSpacecraft Name: Freedom 7\nOccupant: Alan Shepard\nDate: 5/5/1961
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The current International Space Station commander, Sergei Krikalev, has set a new record for the most cumulative time in space - logging a total of 748 days in orbit on Tuesday. His repeated exposure to the physical and psychological stresses of long-duration spaceflight ranks him among the most resilient space-farers in history.\n\nhttp://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7852
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This is actually a good question, because all the shuttle deaths we heard about occurred while going into or down from space.  However, in 1971, three Russian cosmonauts of Soyuz 11 were killed by exposure to vacuum after undocking from space station Salyut 1 when a valve accidently opened.  Their craft subsequently landed normally, but a recovery crew discovered their dead bodies.
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well there wasn't just one but the first person to walk on the moon was neil armstrong
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A space walk is when an astronaut leaves a spacecraft while it is in orbit.  He can either be tethered to the spacecraft to prevent his floating too far away from it, or can be wearing some device, such as the Manned Maneuvering Unit, which can propel him away from the spacecraft and return to it.
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Astronaut Alan Bean was the fourth man to walk on the surface of the moon in 1969.
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There have been a total of 12 people who have set foot on the moon, 2 each from Apollo 11,12,14,15,16 and 17 missions respectively. \n\nThe 12 are as follows:\nNeil Armstrong\nEdwin "Buzz" Aldrin\nPete Conrad\nAlan Bean\nAlan Shepard\nEdgar Mitchell\nDave Scott\nJim Irwin\nJohn Young\nCharles Duke\nGene Cernan\nHarrison Scmitt
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If you are referring to Neil Alden Armstrong (born August 5, 1930) the American astronaut then the answer is:\n\nFirst wife, Janet Elizabeth Shearon on January 28, 1956.\n\nSecond wife, Carol Held Knight on June 12, 1994.
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If you're talking about the astronaut, I don't think he did. He's quoted here : http://wistv.com/global/Story.asp?s=4415552 about a fellow astronaut, and the article was written just three weeks ago, and I couldn't find any obituaries or anything.
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Americans use the word "astronaut, from the Greek "astro" meaning star, and "naut" meaning traveler.  The Russians use the word "cosmonaut," this time from the Greek "cosmos" meaning Universe.
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Armstrong, Neil Alden (1930- ), one of the first civilian United States astronauts and the first human to set foot on the moon. Armstrong was the commander of the first Apollo program mission to land on the moon—Apollo 11—in July 1969. He also flew aboard a Gemini program mission in 1966 and has been a U.S. Navy combat pilot, test pilot, professor, businessman, and presidential adviser. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and numerous international awards for his service on Apollo 11.\n\nArmstrong was born in Wapokoneta, Ohio. When he was 16 years old he began flying as a student pilot. He earned a navy scholarship and began attending Purdue University in 1947. In 1950 Armstrong began active duty with the navy for the Korean War. He flew fighter planes in Korea until 1952, when he returned to Purdue. Armstrong earned his B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering in 1955.\n\nArmstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at the Lewis Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1955, then transferred later that same year to the NACA Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. He was a test pilot for many of the high-performance aircraft used to experiment with ideas for spacecraft. Armstrong left the Flight Research Center in 1962 to join the second group of U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut trainees.\n\nThis second group of trainees included the first two civilian astronaut candidates, Armstrong and test pilot Elliot See. (See unfortunately died in a plane crash while training to be commander of Gemini 9.) After completing initial training at NASA, Armstrong served as a backup to the Gemini 5 crew, then became the command pilot of Gemini 8; David R. Scott also flew aboard Gemini 8. The mission launched March 16, 1966, with the primary objective of docking with another spacecraft. Gemini 8 rendezvoused with a used segment of a launch vehicle called an Agena booster 298 km (185 mi) above the earth, and Armstrong successfully docked the two craft together 6 hours and 34 minutes into the mission. Roughly 30 minutes later, the paired spacecraft began to rotate unexpectedly and without any command from the astronauts. The rotation eventually reached about 60 revolutions per minute. The astronauts and the ground crew reacted rapidly and diagnosed a short circuit in the thruster rocket that controlled Gemini 8’s orientation. Armstrong and Scott had to use roughly 75 percent of Gemini 8's fuel to stabilize the craft, forcing the mission to end early with an emergency reentry during the seventh orbit.\n\nArmstrong’s next assignments were on the backup crews for the Gemini 11 and Apollo 8 missions. In 1968 he was assigned the position of commander for the Apollo 11 mission, joined by Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Allen Collins.\n\nThe mission objective for Apollo 11 was simply to take humans to the moon and return safely. Both NASA and the crew recognized the mission’s significance for all humans, and reflected this in several ways. Apollo 11’s mission patch is the only mission patch in NASA history to have no individual names on it. A plaque mounted on one leg of the lunar module, the part of the Apollo spacecraft that landed on the moon, bears a map of the earth, the signatures of President Richard Nixon and all three astronauts, and the inscription, “Here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”\n\nApollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 16, 1969, and arrived in orbit around the moon on July 20. On the 14th orbit of the moon, following eight hours of preparation for the landing, the lunar module Eagle undocked from the command module Columbia and descended toward the Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility). Armstrong began actively piloting the Eagle when the craft was about 1500 m (about 5000 ft) above the moon and 6 km (4 mi) east of the landing