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Neil Armstrong

Astronaut

After serving as a Naval Aviator, he served 17 years with the NACA and NASA as an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator. As a research pilot at NASA’s Flight Research Center at Edwards, California, he was a project pilot on many pioneering high speed aircraft, including most of the early supersonic jets, the rocket powered X-1, the vertical take off and landing X-14, and the well known X-15, which he flew to over 60 kilometers altitude and 6400 kilometers per hour. He transferred to astronaut status in 1962. He was the commander of the Gemini 8 flight in 1966 when he performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, he, with colleagues Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin, completed the first landing mission to the moon. He received his engineering degrees from Purdue University and the University of Southern California. During the years 1971-1979, he was Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He is a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. In 2002, Mr. Armstrong retired as Chairman of the EDO Corporation, an electronics and aerospace manufacturer.

SPEAKERS 2017
  • George Smoot

    Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate

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    Michel Mayor

    Astrophysicist

  • Jill Tarter

    Astrophysicist

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    Robert Williams

    Astrophysicist

  • David Eicher

    Science writer

  • Charlie Duke

    Astronaut Apollo 16

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  • Alexei Leonov

    Cosmonaut Voskhod 2

  • Stephen Hawking

    Theoretical physicist

  • Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Astrophysicist

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  • Martin Rees

    Astrophysicist

  • Adam Riess

    Astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate

  • Edvard Moser

    Neuroscientist, Nobel Laureate

  • Robert Wilson

    Physicist, Nobel Laureate

  • May-Britt Moser

    Neuroscientist, Nobel Laureate

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  • Buzz Aldrin

    Astronaut Apollo 11

  • Brian E. Cox

    Physicist

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NEWS
  • From Starmus IV to Starmus V
    September 17, 2017
  • IMMEDIATE ANNOUNCEMENT
    June 17, 2017
  • IMMEDIATE ANNOUNCEMENT
    June 15, 2017
  • Brian Cox & Robin Ince to host Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage at Starmus
    Brian Cox & Robin Ince to host Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage at Starmus
    June 15, 2017
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    FULL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCMENT
    April 11, 2017
  • STARMUS IV NEW SPEAKER’S ANNOUNCMENT
    March 7, 2017
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