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Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon and a Purdue graduate, dies at 82. Find the place and the precise coordinates of the Apollo 11 mission landing site on Google Earth map to remember him.

Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong died on August 25 of heart failure following surgery. A former military pilot, he landed the moon landing module with only 16 seconds of fuel left. A Purdue undergraduate student (as was the last man on the moon, ) and a native of Ohio, Neil Armstrong is the product of a time and place that knew tried the limits of being human.

Download this KMZ file and open in Google Earth, using the Google Moon layer to see the Apollo 11 landing site on the moon

 

. You will see the landing site in 3D, as shown below.

Apollo 11 landing site in Google Moon
Apollo 11 landing site in Google Moon

 

Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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