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A private funeral service has been held for astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon.

Neil Armstrong died last Saturday aged 82.

The funeral in Cincinnati, Ohio, was by invitation only, reflecting Neil Armstrong’s own intensely private nature.

Hundreds of millions watched Neil Armstrong land on the Moon on 20 July 1969 and describe it as: “One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

The line became one of the most famous quotes of the 20th Century.

On Friday, Neil Armstrong’s family and friends as well as fellow astronauts gathered at a private golf club for the funeral.

A private funeral service has been held for astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon

A private funeral service has been held for astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon

“Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon paved the way for others to be the <<first>> to step foot on another planet,” said Charles Bolden, head of the US space agency Nasa.

Flags flew half-mast across America on Friday, following President Barack Obama’s order to mark the funeral.

The president earlier described Neil Armstrong as “a hero not just of his time, but of all time”.

A public memorial for the astronaut is planned on 12 September in Washington.

Neil Armstrong’s family said last Saturday that he had died from complications after heart surgery.

The family statement praised him as a “reluctant American hero” and urged his fans to honor his example of “service, accomplishment and modesty”.

Last November, Neil Armstrong received the Congressional Gold Medal – the highest US civilian award.

Many of his colleagues and friends have paid tribute to him as a modest man who never sought the limelight.

Michael Collins, a pilot on the Apollo 11 Moon mission, said: “He was the best, and I will miss him terribly.”

In a rare interview with Australian TV this year, he reflected on a moment during his three hours on the Moon when he stopped to commemorate US astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.

Neil Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin collected samples, conducted experiments and took photographs during their moonwalk.

Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong’s last space mission. In 1971, he left NASA to teach aerospace engineering.

Born in 1930 and raised in Ohio, Neil Armstrong took his first flight aged six with his father and formed a lifelong passion for flying.

Neil Armstrong flew Navy fighter jets during the Korean War in the 1950s, and joined the US space programme in 1962.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces that he has located the long-submerged F-1 engines that blasted the Apollo 11 Moon mission into space.

In a blog post, Jeff Bezos said the five engines were found using advanced sonar scanning some 14,000 ft (4,300 m) below the Atlantic Ocean’s surface.

Jeff Bezos, a billionaire bookseller and spaceflight enthusiast, said he was making plans to raise one or more.

Apollo 11 carried astronauts on the first Moon landing mission in 1969.

The F-1 engines were used on the giant Saturn V rocket that carried the Apollo landing module out of the Earth’s atmosphere and towards the Moon.

They burned for just a few minutes before separating from the second stage module and falling to Earth somewhere in the Atlantic.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces that he has located the long-submerged F-1 engines that blasted the Apollo 11 Moon mission into space

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announces that he has located the long-submerged F-1 engines that blasted the Apollo 11 Moon mission into space

Jeff Bezos’ announcement comes days after film director James Cameron succeeded in his own deep-sea expedition, reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest point on the planet.

Announcing the discovery on his Bezos Expeditions website, Jeff Bezos described the F-1 as a “modern wonder” that boasted 32 million horsepower and burned 6,000 lbs (2,720 kg) of rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen every second.

“I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration,” Jeff Bezos wrote, confirming that his team had located the engines but without hinting where they might be.

“We don’t know yet what condition these engines might be in – they hit the ocean at high velocity and have been in salt water for more than 40 years. On the other hand, they’re made of tough stuff, so we’ll see,” he wrote.

Jeff Bezos’ privately funded team was planning to raise one or more engines, he wrote.

He said he planned to ask NASA – which still owns the rockets – for permission to display one in the Museum of Flight in his home city of Seattle.

NASA said it looked forward to hearing more about the recovery, the Associated Press reports.

Other elements of the Apollo missions – including the Apollo 11 command module – are on display in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

The attempt to raise the F-1 engines is not the first foray into space technology for Jeff Bezos.

In 2000 Jeff Bezos founded a private space flight firm, Blue Origin, which has received NASA funding and is working on making orbital and sub-orbital spaceflight commercially available.

 

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