NASA
Happy New Year, Everyone! I just found out earlier today that the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill, with a vote of 404 to 0, that would rename NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California to the Neil Armstrong Flight Research Center. A test range near Edwards AFB would be re-designated as the Dryden Aeronautical Test Range under the House measure.
While the Senate still needs to act on the proposed bill, this is great news. Although Armstrong has always given sole credit for his historic lunar landing in July of 1969 to the hundreds of thousands of people across the nation working on the Apollo program during the 1960s and early 70s, it's only fitting that one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century will have his name immortalized at a testing facility that has been the vanguard for many revolutionary aircraft and space vehicles. Armstrong, whether he wanted it or not, deserves this recognition.
NASA / Tony Landis
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