Community of Stockton, AL added 3 new photos. July 14 at 1:30pm Â·. In the 1970's The Stockton Five Arts Club hoped to develop a Crepe Myrtle Trail in Stockton by encouraging its club members, local businesses, and others to plant the colorful flowers.
The First American astronaut was Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. He flew into space in 1961. Neil Armstrong's fame was the first person to step on the moon. Neil Armstrong discovered many things. He discovered the dark side of the moon (the part we never see), and he discovered that there was no wind.
The problem: land an aerospace vehicle before you take off in it, and do it the first time ever on an unimproved field no human has ever visited. That's what Neil Armstrong faced when he guided Eagle to the moon's surface in July 1969. Image right: The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, described the unorthodox training vehicle that taught him how to land on the lunar surface. Armstrong spoke to a packed hall during the Society of Experimental Test Pilots symposium in California September 29.