Edit request on 14 September 2012 PLEASE CHANGE Armstrong s family announced he would be buried at sea 137 TO Armstrong was honored in a tribute at Washington s National Cathedral on September 13 2012 In attendance at the tribute were fellow Apollo 11 crewmates Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin Also in attendance was Eugene A Cernan the Apollo 17 mission commander and last man to walk on the moon and John Glenn the former Senator and first American to orbit the Earth as well as the current NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Armstrong was laid to rest in the Atlantic on Friday September 14 2012 in a burial at sea ceremony aboard the USS Philippine Sea CG 58