Naval astronaut Neil Armstrong
12 Mar 2010, 16:43 UTC
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The first man to walk on the Moon was presented by the U.S. Navy on Wednesday with a pair of honorary Naval astronaut wings recognizing his "service to the Navy and in the field of space exploration." Neil Armstrong was awarded with the wings while he was aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower with the "Legends of Aerospace" military appreciation tour along with fellow Apollo astronauts Gene Cernan and Jim Lovell. Armstrong served as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952; the astronaut wings were not authorized until 1961.
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