Apollo 11 Moon landing: Neil Armstrong to skip 40th anniversary moonwalk party
Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the Moon, is reportedly going to skip a celebration of his achievement to mark the Apollo 11 mission's 40th anniversary.
The notoriously publicity-shy Armstrong will appear briefly at an event on Sunday, but will not appear in public on Monday, 40 years to the day since he set foot on the Moon.
The event at Nasa's headquarters in Washington will be attended by his fellow Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and one of the last men to walk on the Moon, Eugene Cernan.
Instead, Mr Armstrong is expected to deliver a 15-minute talk on Sunday at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, home to America's National Air and Space Museum.
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The notoriously publicity-shy Armstrong will appear briefly at an event on Sunday, but will not appear in public on Monday, 40 years to the day since he set foot on the Moon.
The event at Nasa's headquarters in Washington will be attended by his fellow Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and one of the last men to walk on the Moon, Eugene Cernan.
Instead, Mr Armstrong is expected to deliver a 15-minute talk on Sunday at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, home to America's National Air and Space Museum.