Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

Purdue University graduate and Apollo 11 flight commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. It was a truly giant leap for mankind, and a seminal moment ...

Related: Neil Armstrong: First man on the moon He gave testimony before Congress, commemorated past spaceflights on their anniversaries and spoke to students at Purdue, where he had earned a ...

Camden Heide took off a la Neil Armstrong and flushed the tomahawk putback dunk for two points. The Purdue basketball bench player is clearly stepping up because Coach Matt Painter is experiencing ...

When Neil Armstrong became the first person to set ... During his first year at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship, he was excited but saddened to hear that test pilot Chuck Yeager had ...

This focus continues in archives and special collections where the Flight Archives documents Purdue’s role from early flight to space exploration including the papers of Amelia Earhart to Neil ...

Located in the bottom of the Armstrong building is Saxbys, a food place where you can get sandwiches and hot drinks that just ...