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Wright Flyer Fabric Taken to the Moon by Neil Armstrong

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Title	Wright Flyer Fabric Taken to the Moon by Neil Armstrong
Subject	Transportation Textiles Flight Aeronautics Space flight Airplanes Space vehicles Manned space flight Armstrong, Neil, 1930- Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912
Place	Dayton (Ohio) Montgomery County (Ohio) Wapakoneta (Ohio) Auglaize County (Ohio) Washington (District of Columbia)
Description	Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong took this 8" x 13" (20.32 x 33.02 cm) piece of muslin fabric from the left wing of the Wright Brothers' 1903 Flyer to the moon aboard the lunar module Eagle on the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. Also included is an 11" x 8" (27.94 x 20.32 cm) document signed by Armstrong authenticating event. The 1903 Wright Flyer was the first successful powered aircraft. The Apollo 11 spacecraft made the first manned mission to the moon. It consisted of the Columbia command module and the Eagle lunar module. Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong composed the crew. Mission Commander Armstrong was the first man to exit the lunar module and walk on the surface of the moon. Wapakoneta native Armstrong (born 1930) earned his pilot's license at age 16 and attended college at Purdue University, studying aeronautical engineering. He was called away from college to serve his country during the Korean War and flew 78 combat missions for the United States Navy. Following the war he finished his degree and became an aeronautical research pilot for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In 1962 he was selected as the first civilian astronaut and served as the command pilot for the Gemini 8 space mission.
Creator	Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 Wright, Orville, 1871-1948
Date of Original	1903; 1969
Source	Historical object(s) or artifact(s) 69-201-3
Submitting Institution	National Museum of the United States Air Force
Type	StillImage
Format	picture; objects

Title	Om2710_1994202_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2710_1994202_001.tif
Image Height	476
Image Width	741
File Size	106.261 KB

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