Neil Armstrong

Type: Person

Name: Neil Armstrong

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 3 reports

Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong Space icons get new round of remembrance

NASA is paying renewed tribute this week to Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, as well as to Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon, almost a year after their deaths.Ride's latest day in the spotlight came on Tuesday, for a simple ... [Published Big News Network - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Sally Ride, Neil Armstrong, NASA

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

NASA Announces Memorial Service for Astronaut Neil Armstrong

HOUSTON -- The following information was released by the Johnson Space Center (NASA): NASA will honor the life and historic achievements of astronaut Neil Armstrong during a memorial service at 10 a.m. CDT Thursday, June 20, at the Johnson Space Center ... [Published HighBeam Research - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Neil Armstrong, NASA, Cosmonaut

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Hawker Siddeley

Straight up: BAE's vertical lift-off that never was

If only the now-BAE Systems-owned Hawker Siddeley had succeeded in extending its vertical take-off and landing technology to commercial aircraft, all the agonising over airport expansion could have been avoided. Design work in the 1960s was aimed at enabling ... [Published Telegraph - Jun 16 2013]

Entities: Hawker Siddeley, British Aircraft Corporation, English Electric

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Gift to Orange Town Hall meant to inspire

when Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were landing the Eagle lunar module on the moon, they were about 200,000 miles away from James OSullivan.By October of 1969, the astronauts including Michael Collins, who stayed in an orbiting spacecraft as his colleagues ... [Published New Haven Register - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: David O'Sullivan, Michael Collins, Cosmonaut, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

Local advocate for seniors honoured at convocation

A life-long advocate for seniors' welfare has been recognized with an honorary doctorate from Brock.Doug Rapelje, the Region's past director of social services and senior citizens, was one of two people to receive an honorary degree from the University ... [Published Noodls - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Isaac Brock, Physiology, Advocate, Neil Armstrong

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

NASA Announces Memorial Service For Astronaut Neil Armstrong

Armstrong made two trips into space. He made his first journey in 1966 as commander of the Gemini 8 mission. On July 16, 1969A tree dedication ceremony at the Memorial Tree Grove will follow the service. Media planning to attend should contact the JSC ... [Published Street Insider - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Neil Armstrong, NASA, Cosmonaut

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 2 reports

Moon walker Neil Armstrong celebrated in Langholm Scotland

It's been said that Neil Armstrong embodied the American dream: coming from a small Ohio town to be the first man on the Moon. As the inhabitants of Langholm, Scotland, know he came from a lot further than ... ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Neil Armstrong, Scotland

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 2 reports

Revive Americas can-do spirit

I recently toured the Johnson Space Center here, while vacationing with my retired, itinerant, sainted parents. The most striking thing at NASA’s legendary facility is a Saturn V rocket. It lies within a giant hangar, beneath incredibly bright lights. ... [Published Lansdale Reporter - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Saturn, Wheeze, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Invention

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

West is best for trains

The Co Mayo station was honoured at the Iarnrod Eireann Best Station awards after topping the list of criteria including staff helpfulness, station appearance and customer information. It is the first time the busy station has been honoured at the awards, ... [Published Irish Independent - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Jackie Clarke, Ramadan, Neil Armstrong

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Armstrong heritage from the Toon to the Moon

THE childrenâs feet at Langholm Playcare have not touched the ground these last two weeks as they help Langholm celebrate Neil Armstrongâs life.They have been making space scenes, junk models and rockets and marble balloon paintings which have been entered ... [Published Eskdale & Liddesdale Advertiser - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Neil Armstrong, Grace Brown, Mark Armstrong, University of St Andrews, Astrophysics

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 2 reports

The Epitome of Cool Neil Armstrong and David Scott 1966

The Epitome of Cool: Neil Armstrong and David Scott, 1966Neil Armstrong and David Scott in the Gemini VIII capsule, after splashdown, March 16, 1966. Credit: NASA. So, you’ve just endured a harrowing experience where your orbiting spacecraft has gone ... [Published Birmingham Star - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: David Scott, Neil Armstrong, NASA, Chandra X-ray Observatory, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 2 reports

New school buildings set to open in Granite School District

Three new school buildings will open their doors in the Granite School District this fall: Granger High School, Hartvigsen School and Neil Armstrong Academy. ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Granite, Neil Armstrong

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Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong: Space icons get ... [Published Cosmic Log - 7 hours ago] On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space as she and four colleagues blasted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard the space shuttle Challenger for a 147-hour mission. NBC's Robert Bazell Reports from Cape Canaveral. /div>By ...
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Matt Gurney: Hadfield’s options are as numerous... [Published National Post \| Full Comment » Full Comment - Jun 11 2013] The question Chris Hadfield faces as his retirement approaches — he will leave the Canadian Space Agency effective July 3 — is not precisely unique. Now that he’s come back, he faces the same question other astronauts did: What can possibly top that? ...
The rules [Published Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - Jun 09 2013] The essential etiquette guide to modern life Being shocked by political scandal Polite society does not acknowledge that Britain is corrupt. The correct word for British corruption is "sleaze". The proper definition of sleaze is when a politician ...
Neil Armstrong’s Indecipherable Ohio Dialect [Published Outside The Beltway \| OTB - Jun 08 2013] The latest theory about what Neil Armstrong said on the moon is based on his boyhood in northwestern Ohio. Nautilus (“ 44 Years of Debating the First Words Ever Spoken on the Moon “): Perhaps no recorded phrase has been so heavily analyzed, ...

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