As a 12-year-old completely immersed in our nation’s manned space program, I knew I was witnessing history as I watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. What I couldn’t appreciate as a boy ...

Armstrong, 82, died Saturday after surgery earlier this month for blocked arteries. A fighter pilot in the Korean War, a test pilot and an engineering professor, he will also be remembered as the ...

How Neil Armstrong inspired POW John McCain. ... I and several hundred comrades were otherwise engaged — prisoners of war in the enemy's capital, where in 1969, news could travel slowly.

NEIL ARMSTRONG was involved in a near-death experience during the Korean War – but his skill as a pilot clearly put him 'head and shoulders above the rest' years before the Apollo programme had ...

In a rare public appearance, Neil Armstrong, the commander of the Apollo 11 spacecraft and the first human to walk on the moon, credited Cold War tensions as enabling the rapid development of ...

Armstrong's fascination with airplanes began with his first flight at age six, and that fascination never abandoned him. He left Purdue University in 1950 when the Korean War broke out, and flew ...