“I just thought somebody has got to step up to the plate,” Ken Schreiber said of his decision to donate the money
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- Ken Schreiber, a retired fighter pilot, donated $400,000 to help preserve Neil Armstrong’s childhood home in Ohio
- Schreiber was 9 years old when he watched Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon in 1969
- The Auglaize County Historical Society plans to restore the home and hopes to open it for public tours by 2030
A man who was inspired by Neil Armstrong’s historic moon landing has donated $400,000 to help a historical society buy the late astronaut’s childhood home.
Ken Schreiber, a retired military fighter pilot who currently lives in Texas, was just 9 years old when he watched Armstrong become the first person to walk on the moon in July 1969, according to the Associated Press…