Purdue has named a building after Neil Armstrong, complete with a statue of the first man on the moon.
I was reminded of a list of “back in my day’s“:
Back in the 1970s we didn’t have the space shuttle to get all excited about. We had to settle for men walking on the crummy moon.
Doug:
In our distorted celebrity worshipping culture, Neil Armstrong is the rare person who has been honored for actual achievement and heroism. He is the Christopher Columbus of our age, yet he has chosen to live a modest conventional life outside the media glare. I think it speaks highly of both Armstrong and Purdue that his legacy will be a center of engineering education and research. He was far more interested in learning, innovating, doing his duty for his country, than grabbing headlines. I highly recommend “First Man,” by James Hansen, the only authorized Armstrong biography.