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"Welcome to the Armstrong Flight Research Center". NASA honours the Apollo 11 astronaut (VIDEO)

Edwards, USA - The first man to step on the moon worked for seven years at Edwards as test pilot

NASA completed the redesignation of its Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, which is now known as the Armstrong Flight Research Center. The facility is being renamed in honor of Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to step on the moon during the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and a former research test pilot at the center. Hugh L. Dryden, the center's namesake since 1976, will...

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Rome, Italy, 03/03/2014 12:22
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