The mission was generally successful, despite a problem with the fuel cells that prevented a rendezvous. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan asked Armstrong to join the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

The group published a book titled Pioneering the Space Frontier: The Report on the National Commission on Space, recommending a permanent lunar base by 2006, and sending people to Mars by 2015. After thinking it over for a day, Armstrong told Slayton he would stick with Aldrin, as he had no difficulty working with him and thought Lovell deserved his own command. He held up the aircraft nose during its descent to demonstrate the MH-96's g-limiting performance, and the X-15 ballooned back up to around 140,000 feet (43 km). In addition to the LLRV training, NASA began lunar landing simulator training after Apollo 10 was completed.

With features like variable speed settings and quick-change chucks, impact drivers are versatile and easy to use. m) of his wing was torn off after it collided with a cable that was strung across the hills as a booby trap. When Pete Conrad of Apollo 12 became the third man to walk on the Moon, on November 19, 1969, his first words referenced Armstrong. Armstrong was appointed to a fourteen-member commission by President Reagan to develop a plan for American civilian spaceflight in the 21st century. Armstrong served as project pilot on Century Series fighters, including the North American F-100 Super Sabre A and C variants, the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, the Republic F-105 Thunderchief and the Convair F-106 Delta Dart.

The first was a code 1202 alarm, and even with their extensive training, neither Armstrong nor Aldrin knew what this code meant. S. Air Force as one of seven pilot-engineers who would fly the X-20 when it got off the design board.Luvley is a celebration of colour, play and dress-up, of children having fun, looking cool and expressing themselves - without ransacking Mummy's wardrobe and ruining her favourite lipstick. The selections were kept secret until three days later, although newspaper reports had circulated since earlier that year that he would be selected as the "first civilian astronaut". On November 27, 1950, he was assigned to VF-51, an all-jet squadron, becoming its youngest officer, and made his first flight in a jet, a Grumman F9F Panther, on January 5, 1951.