Apollo 11 Crew Wins Rare Aviation Honor

The crew of Apollo 11 has received the Smithsonian Institution's Langley Gold Medal ``for meritorious investigations in connection with the science of aerodromics and its application to aviation''--an honor conferred only 21 times before and shared by the likes of Orville and Wilbur Wright, Glenn...

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