US Navy Names Research Ship for First Moonwalker Neil Armstrong

Monday, March 31, 2014 - 15:02 in Earth & Climate

You could call it one small step for a ship, one giant leap for oceanographic research. The Navy named the first of a new class of research vessels after the first man to walk on the moon, astronaut Neil Armstrong, at a ceremony in Anacortes, Wash.

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