The day Neil Armstrong landed in a small Scottish town
It is 50 years since huge crowds turned out in Langholm to welcome Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon.
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Remember when ... Neil Armstrong over the moon in Langholm
Neil Armstrong receives the Freedom of Langholm on March 11, 1972 SPACE has once again been in the news in recent days. At the weekend Richard Branson's plans for commercial space tourism suffered a setback when Virgin Galactic aborted a test flight of its rocket-powered space plane. It was successfully carried to an altitude of about 9.4 miles, but did not decouple from its mother ship as planned. Scotland, of course, has its connections with the final frontier. Sutherland and Shetland are fighting it out for the right to be our spaceport and – here's the biggie – we can claim Neil A...
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