The Dumfries and Galloway town is hosting two weeks of events in honour of the first man to walk on the moon.

BBC: Neil Armstrong links celebrated in Langholm exhibition

America put a man in space, put a man in orbit, put a man on the moon, created the world's first reusable spacecraft, sent unmanned probes to other planets and led the world in making important scientific discoveries outside the Earth's atmosphere.

FORBES: NASA Needs A Mission

Wells, like Verne, tried to predict how man's first lunar voyage might unfold (The First Men in the Moon, 1901).

FORBES: Eerily Prescient

America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, who later walked on the moon in 1971's Apollo 14 mission, became a millionaire businessman.

CNN: After walking on moon, astronauts trod various paths