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.
But in the case of Tuesday's rumors that astronaut Neil Armstrong had died â well, Armstrong is still dead. The part that the Internet got wrong is when. Armstrong, the first man on the moon, passed away Aug. 25, 2012.