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NASA on Tuesday (May 13) held a ceremony at its flight research center in California to formally mark the renaming of the facility for the first person to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong. The event, which included remarks by the late astronaut’s sons and the grandson of Hugh L. Dryden, the aeronautics pioneer who served as the center’s prior namesake, ended with a low flyover by a NASA F-18 jet and the unveiling of a revised sign — the same sign that Armstrong once posed under as a research pilot working at the center in 1962.