Neil Armstrong Air and Space Museum

The Armstrong Air and Space Museum is a museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the birthplace of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. To him, the museum was built as a futuristic air and space museum in honor.

The museum is intended to represent the Ohio's contribution to the development of space travel. Among the items shown there is a Douglas F5D Skylancer, lander the Gemini 8 mission, Equipment parts of the Apollo 11 mission and lunar rocks. The exhibits are partially on loan from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and the Air Force Museum. In Astro- theater of the museum multimedia presentations will take place.

Following the successful conclusion of the Apollo 11 mission suggested James A. Rhodes, Governor of Ohio, to build a museum before, that should honor Armstrong and " all people from Ohio, who defeated the gravity ". The community Wapakoneta applied to over half a million USD in donations, and the state of Ohio was another half a million. After 1970, the groundbreaking ceremony took place, the museum was opened in the presence of Neil Armstrong and the new Governor John Gilligan 1972.

The museum is funded by the private, non-profit Ohio Historical Society and donations from local citizens. The museum is run by John Zwez, which is related to Neil Armstrong. After the museum was renovated in 1999 for 1.15 million USD from the Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission, it was re-opened in June 1999.