Creech, Gray (July 15, 2004). "From the Mojave to the Moon: Neil Armstrong's Early NASA Years". NASA. Archived from the original on June 30, 2011 . Retrieved May 17, 2011. Neil Armstrong Remembered". University of Cincinnati. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015 . Retrieved November 28, 2015. Jones, Eric M. (November 1, 2005). "Apollo 11 Crew Information". Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal. NASA. Archived from the original on August 28, 2007 . Retrieved August 28, 2007. Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon, dead at 82". The National. August 26, 2012. Archived from the original on March 4, 2018 . Retrieved February 28, 2018.

EDO Corporation CEO James M. Smith to become Chairman upon retirement of Neil A. Armstrong" (Press release). EDO Corporation. February 8, 2000. Archived from the original on October 17, 2006 . Retrieved July 1, 2006.I was born in 1972 into a world where humans had walked on the moon. My mum loved space, so we watched all the space shuttle launches on television together. I remember seeing grainy images of Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon’s surface. The incredible engineering accomplishment that Apollo 11 represented opened me to the potential that we could do anything. Armstrong was elected as member into the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for contributions to aerospace engineering, scientific knowledge, and exploration of the universe as an experimental test pilot and astronaut. [249] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2001. [250]

Seymour, Gene (August 27, 2012). "Neil Armstrong, a hero who shunned fame". CNN . Retrieved June 9, 2018.For many years, he wrote letters congratulating new Eagle Scouts on their accomplishment, but decided to quit the practice in the 1990s because he felt the letters should be written by people who knew the scout. (In 2003, he received 950 congratulation requests.) This contributed to the myth of his reclusiveness. [198] Armstrong used to autograph everything except first day covers. Around 1993, he found out his signatures were being sold online, and that most of them were forgeries, and stopped giving autographs. [189] Personal life Armstrong speaking in February 2012, six months before his death, on the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's first spaceflight At the time, the United States was still trailing the Soviet Union in space developments, and Cold War-era America welcomed Kennedy's bold proposal. In 1966, after five years of work by an international team of scientists and engineers, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) conducted the first unmanned Apollo mission, testing the structural integrity of the proposed launch vehicle and spacecraft combination. Armstrong remained with NASA, serving as deputy associate administrator for aeronautics until 1971. After leaving NASA, he joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati as a professor of aerospace engineering. Armstrong remained at the university for eight years. Staying active in his field, he served as the chairman of Computing Technologies for Aviation, Inc., from 1982 to 1992. a b c Nixon, Richard (August 13, 1969). Peters, Gerhard; Woolley, John T. (eds.). "Remarks at a Dinner in Los Angeles Honoring the Apollo 11 Astronauts". The American Presidency Project. University of California, Santa Barbara . Retrieved July 20, 2019.

At Cincinnati, Armstrong was University Professor of Aerospace Engineering. He took a heavy teaching load, taught core classes, and created two graduate-level classes: aircraft design and experimental flight mechanics. He was considered a good teacher, and a tough grader. His research activities during this time did not involve his work at NASA, as he did not want to give the appearance of favoritism; he later regretted the decision. After teaching for eight years, Armstrong resigned in 1980. When the university changed from an independent municipal university to a state school, bureaucracy increased. He did not want to be a part of the faculty collective bargaining group, so he decided to teach half-time. According to Armstrong, he had the same amount of work but received half his salary. In 1979, less than 10% of his income came from his university salary. Employees at the university did not know why he left. [174] NASA commissions While the astronauts flew in space, Mission Control closely monitored from the ground. Coordinating with radio stations in California, Spain and Australia to provide 24-hour communications and telemetry data during the Apollo missions, “Houston”—as the astronauts called Mission Control—is almost as famous as any of the people who flew to the moon, and Gene Kranz was one of the most influential people in that room. Neil Armstrong, Hallmark Settle". Chicago Tribune. December 2, 1995. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011 . Retrieved May 19, 2011. Beaver, David. "First Korean on the moon!". Language Log. University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017 . Retrieved February 28, 2018. The teaching resource can be used in study group tasks for a simple explanation of this significant event in history, as a printed handout for each pupil to read themselves, or for display on the interactive whiteboard, as part of a whole class reading exercise.Neil Armstrong's Last Name Posed a Problem in his Ancestral Scottish Hometown". thevintagenews. April 15, 2019 . Retrieved September 4, 2022. Stern, Jacob (July 23, 2019). "One Small Controversy About Neil Armstrong's Giant Leap". The Atlantic . Retrieved July 25, 2019. When he tried to match the air-to-ground transcript to an audiovisual recording, he found that the transcript was behind—and that one of the records had to be wrong about the time of Armstrong's first step.