Back in the 1970s, the Jewish-Israeli press reported that for some unexplained reason, Apollo 11 astronaut, Neil Armstrong, carried a small Israeli flag with him all the way to the moon and back — and that it was ultimately presented as a gift to the Israeli President on behalf of President Richard Nixon: At a short ceremony on April 19, 1970, Israel received a rare gift – two pieces of the moon... 

Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 became the first person in the world to set foot on the Moon, died in the United States. In early August, 82-year-old Armstrong received surgery to reduce the clogging of coronary arteries. Today, the family of the legendary astronaut said that he died due to post-surgery complications. U.S. President Barack Obama made a statement in connection with astronaut’s...