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 ...

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

Twenty-three Purdue alumni have become astronauts, including Neil Armstrong – the first person to walk on the moon – and Eugene Cernan – the last person to walk on the moon. In 2010 the newest school ...