Edit request on  September       PLEASE CHANGE Armstrongs family announced he would be buried at sea  TO  Armstrong was honored in a tribute at Washingtons National Cathedral on September    In attendance at the tribute were fellow Apollo  crewmates Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin  Also in attendance was Eugene A Cernan the Apollo  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   in a burial at sea ceremony aboard the USS Philippine Sea CG