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2014-01-16

Space : Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California wordt "NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center."


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Congress renames NASA flight center after Neil Armstrong


Neil Armstrong, seen here in an original painting by artist Robert McCall depicting the astronaut's early NASA career when he was a research pilot at the center that will bear his name. (NASA)
Jan. 9, 2014 – Lawmakers have renamed NASA's primary flight research center to honor the first man to walk on the moon.

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday (Jan. 8) passed a bill that redesignates the space agency's Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California the "NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center."