Community of Stockton, AL added 3 new photos. In the 1970's The Stockton Five Arts Club hoped to develop a Crepe Myrtle Trail in Stockton by encouraging its club members, local businesses, and others to plant the colorful flowers.
Armstrong's first trip into space was aboard the Gemini 8. He was the command pilot of the space capsule and piloted the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. The mission was cut short, however, when the capsules began to roll. On December 23, 1968 Neil was offered the command of the Apollo 11. This would be the first manned landing on the Moon. This was an exciting time for the entire country. The United States was in a race with the Soviet Union to put the first man on the Moon.
The two people who went with Neil Armstrong to the moon on Apollo 11 were Buzz Aldrin (the Lunar Module Pilot) and Michael Collins (the Command Module Pilot). Buzz Aldrin accompanied Neil Armstrong onto the lunar soil as the first two people to walk on the Moon. It's mostly because people are so fascinated by the concept of the first person to walk on the Moon that Neil Armstrong is more famous than the other two.