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Neil Armstrong selected for future Moon flight...
Neil Armstrong selected for future Moon flight...
Item # 708297
September 18, 1962
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sept. 18, 1962
* NASA Astronaut Group 2 is selected
* Apollo program - human spaceflights
* Neil Armstrong - Moon missions
The front page has a two column heading: "9 New Astronauts Named To Train for Moon Flights" (see images) The top of page 18 has a 7 column heading: "Sketches of the Nine New Astronauts Chosen by U. S. to Train for Flights to the Moon" with photos of each new astronaut including a 32 year old Neil Armstrong. Was this the first time his name was put on the national stage ? This was almost 7 years prior to the first Moon landing. I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because their was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete with 80 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, nice condition.
wikipedia notes: NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations, Deke Slayton, called Armstrong on September 13, 1962, and asked whether he would be interested in joining the NASA Astronaut Corps as part of what the press dubbed "the New Nine"; without hesitation, Armstrong said yes. The selections were kept secret until three days later, although newspaper reports had circulated since earlier that year that he would be selected as the "first civilian astronaut". Armstrong was one of two civilian pilots selected for this group; the other was Elliot See, another former naval aviator. NASA selected the second group that, compared with the Mercury Seven astronauts, were younger, and had more impressive academic credentials. Collins wrote that Armstrong was by far the most experienced test pilot in the Astronaut Corps.
Category: The 20th Century
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