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.
Neil Armstrong sits in the lunar module after a historic moonwalk. Credit: NASA. View full size image. Neil A. Armstrong was a NASA astronaut and the first man on the moon or, more accurately, the first man to set foot on the moon. Armstrong was the pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, launched March 16, 1966. 2  He performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space (Gemini 8 docked with a previously launched Agena rocket). 3  After his time as an astronaut, Armstrong was Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics at NASA Headquarters.