Purdue Memorial Service Monday For Armstrong
Purdue Student Government will hold a memorial service for university alumnus and Apollo astronaut Neil A. Armstrong at 5:30 p.m. this evening at the West Lafayette campus.
The service will be at the Neil Armstrong statue in front of Neil A. Armstrong Hall of Engineering, 701 W. Stadium Ave.
Armstrong, who died Saturday, Aug. 25, at age 82, earned a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Purdue in 1955. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering from Purdue in 1970. On July 20, 1969, he became the first person to walk on the moon as commander of Apollo 11.
Joe Rust, president of Purdue Student Government, said the university’s acting President Timothy Sands will be one of the speakers at the campus service. Other speakers and details are still being planned, he said.
More on Armstrong’s Purdue connections is available online.