Congress has now officially renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong.
Congress has now officially renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong.
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.” The legislation continues to honor the facility’s displaced namesake by renaming the surrounding area the “Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range.” The U.S. House of Representatives earlier introduced and passed a corresponding resolution in February 2013. This was at least the third time since 2007 that Congress has sought to name the flight research center for Armstrong.
On Thursday, the bill was presented to the President to be signed into law.
It still seems unseemly to me to remove the honor from Dryden. I would rather give Armstrong a better memorial, on the Moon.
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Congress has now officially renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong.
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.” The legislation continues to honor the facility’s displaced namesake by renaming the surrounding area the “Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range.” The U.S. House of Representatives earlier introduced and passed a corresponding resolution in February 2013. This was at least the third time since 2007 that Congress has sought to name the flight research center for Armstrong.
On Thursday, the bill was presented to the President to be signed into law.
It still seems unseemly to me to remove the honor from Dryden. I would rather give Armstrong a better memorial, on the Moon.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I bet SpaceX could name something way cooler after Armstrong than NASA can. Give them 5 years…
Considering that Armstrong was an outspoken critic of SpaceX, I don’t think it would be appropriate, do you?
Kind of like chiseling one of the faces on mount Rushmore to resemble a more “contemporary” president?
Its a shame that they would strip honors from one to honor another. But now the damage is done. Perhaps it might be a good move to petition for some other structure to be named in Dryden’s honor like say the vehicle assembly building at Kennedy.
Read the article. They did exactly as you suggest for Dryden at the center that used to be named after him.