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Neil Armstrong’s Path to the Moon Began at Edwards
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Famed astronaut Neil A. Armstrong – the first person to set foot on the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 – spent seven years as a research pilot at the NACA-NASA High-Speed Flight Station, now NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, before joining the space program. During his time there, he served as a project pilot on the F-100A, F-100C, F-101, and F-104A (pictured here).
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Credit lineNeil Armstrong’s Path to the Moon Began at Edwards. NASA/AFRC, 1960-02-26. Public domain. ID: E60-5280.
