Man who watched Neil Armstrong walk on moon as a boy spends $400,000 to save astronaut’s childhood home

As a nine-year-old in 1969, Ken Schreiber watched Neil Armstrong take his first steps on the moon—an unforgettable moment. Like Armstrong, he later became a military fighter pilot.

When Schreiber read in August that Armstrong’s boyhood home in Ohio was up for sale and discovered no one had stepped forward to protect it, he surprised himself by making an offer.