Astronauts

Neil Armstrong, left, shaking hands with former National Aeronautics and Space Administration head James E. Webb during the fifth anniversary of the launch of Apollo II at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong speaks before the crowd commemorating the fifth anniversary of the launch of Apollo II from Launch Complex 39. Seated left to right: unidentified, Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrin, unidentified, James E. Webb.

The speakers platform during the fifth anniversary celebration commemorating the launch of Apollo II from Launch Complex 39. This was during the naming of the complex as a National Landmark. Seated left to right: unidentified, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrin, unidentified, James Webb.

James E. Webb, former head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, speaking before the large crowd assembled to celebrate the naming of Launch Complex 39 as a National Landmark. This was done on the fifth anniversary of the launch of Apollo II from this complex. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, (seated second from Webb), Michall Collins, and Edwin Aldrin are in attendance.

Photo of Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins unveiling a plaque making Launch Complex 39 a National Landmark on the fifth anniversary of the launch of Apollo II.

Apollo II Command Module Pilot Michael Collins addresses the large crowd assembled for the fifth anniversary of the launching of the first manned lunar landing mission from Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida (Cape Canaveral). Launch Complex 39 from which Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Michael Collins began their historic journey will be dedicated as a National Landmark.

Photo of the crew of the first manned Apollo flight: Edward H White II, Virgil I. Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee. All astronauts were killed in a fire on the Apollo rocket.

Two Project Mercury astronauts, Deke Slayton (left), and Scott Carpenter (2nd left), speak with two unidentified men in the Rose Garden at the White House during the presentation ceremony of the 1962 Collier Trophy.