Neil Armstrong, You've Just Walked on the Moon -- What Are You Going to Do Now?

Only 12 men have set foot on the moon. Today, 25 years after Neil Armstrong's first step, they are scattered about the country. Not all of them are aerospace consultants or evangelical Christians.

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A pre-Iacocca pitchman for Chrysler, NEIL ARMSTRONG is chairman of a defense electronics firm. He lives on a farm in Ohio, zealously guarding his privacy, granting no interviews on the anniversary of his one small step for a man.

BUZZ ALDRIN bravely wrote about his post-moonwalk nervous breakdown in a 1973 memoir, Return to Earth. He is head of Starcraft Enterprise, a California firm that promotes his ideas for reinvigorating the space program -- some of them outlandish enough to have earned him the sobriquet "the Nutty Professor" in the halls of his ex-employers at NASA.

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