Astronaut Neil Armstrong is awarded an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin.
Neil Armstrong was command pilot for the United States Apollo 11 lunar mission in 1969 and is Professor of Aeronautical Space Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
Six distinguished Americans were awarded honorary doctorates in Trinity College Dublin to mark the bicentennial of American Independence. The others are Walter Curley, US Ambassador to Ireland, Kingman Brewster, President of Yale University, poet Robert Lowell, novelist and playwright Saul Bellow, and pianist Charles Rosen.
Neil Armstrong expects research, exploration and travel in space to continue aspart of human existence.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 31 May 1976.
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