For three hours I sat across from Armstrong as he regaled us with stories of the first moon landing.
One of the most dramatic events of his first term occurred in 1969, when American astronauts made the first moon landing.
The game begins in 1957, with the preparations to launch the first satellite into orbit, and ends with the first Moon landing.
That here we would be -- 40 years after the first moon landing -- still wondering when humans will return to the moon.
China also hopes to make its first moon landing within two years and to put an astronaut on the moon as early as 2025.
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The gift, which also included a small Alaskan state flag that was flown to the moon with Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on the first manned moon landing mission, was one of about 185 such displays that were presented to the states, the United States' territories and to foreign nations.
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Armstrong launched onto the world stage in July 1969, when he commanded NASA's Apollo 11 mission to make the first manned moon landing.
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The firm made the Eagle module that carried Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the lunar surface for the first manned moon landing in 1969.
However, after more than 40 years in the ocean, the serial numbers are so badly corroded that it may not prove possible to identify specific engines, such as those that lifted Apollo 11 to the first landing on the Moon.
And we learn from both that Mr Armstrong's first job on landing on the moon was to grab a rock.
It is the first US sample-return mission since the last Moon landing in 1972.
Mr. Weiner, who was born in Baltimore and raised in Los Angeles from the age of 11, at first claims no great affection for the period between the waning of the Eisenhower era and the moon landing.
It was a precision job, like landing on the Moon, as the team lowered into Erte Ale and recorded the first ever 3D laser scan of this remarkable volcano.
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