Sea burial for Armstrong, Navy man to end
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer
Neil Armstrong, a traditional Navy man to the end, will be buried at sea.
His colleagues from the Gemini and Apollo space programs had speculated about where Armstrong might go to rest.
Some thought near his hometown in Wapakoneta, Ohio, others thought perhaps closer to his home in the Cincinnati suburb of Indian Hill, where he spent the last decades of his life.
Instead, the first man to set foot on the moon wanted a traditional burial from the side of a ship.
“Well, he’s a Navy man,” said fellow astronaut and longtime friend Jim Lovell.
Armstrong’s Navy career began in 1947, when he enlisted in the Naval ROTC and went to college.
By 1950, at the age of 20, he was stationed on the USS Essex, about 100 miles off of Wonsan Bay in the Sea of Japan.
He flew 78 combat missions, and after each of them he would fly back over the water toward the safety of the Essex.
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I'm so glad to hear that! Very, very cool. 
~Neil Armstrong
On the Occasion of the 25th Anniversary of Apollo Eleven
The White House, July 20, 1994
- We are trying to remove those ''protective layers,'' Neil. A safe voyage to you sir.....
I think it would be quite cool to be buried at sea.
My grandfather was a member of the Neptune society and his ashes were buried at sea.
I had a miniature of a Viking that I painted sent to the bottom with him, my way of a grave offering I suppose.
Anyway, I think it would be pretty cool to be dropped w/ weights to the bottom of some marine trench.
Who knows what would happen? I could become a fossil, seen a million years later, or perhaps I could be dragged down into the mantle and truly return to the earth. 
And the carbon that I'm based on gets sequestered either way!
If we buried everyone this way we could free up a lot of land and have a good shot of actually showing up in the fossil record..... 
