After completing Science Verification Cruise 4 on May 9, 2016, R/V Neil Armstrong sailed into Woods Hole on a bright spring morning. Look for R/V Atlantis tied up at the dock (in Armstrong’s usual berth) and the post-cruise photo with all of the science party and ship’s crew assembling on the aft deck.
The research vessel Neil Armstrong is named for the American hero whose “one small step” provided humanity with a new perspective on our planet and is operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Read more »
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