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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/neil-armstrong-honours-nasa-pioneer.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Dr Georg von Tiesenhausen, left, is presented with his award by Neil Armstrong, right (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-neil-armstrong-honours-nasa-pioneer.jpg" alt="Dr Georg von Tiesenhausen, left, is presented with his award by Neil Armstrong, right (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Moonwalker Neil Armstrong has made a rare public appearance to honour a Nasa pioneer.</p>
<p>Mr Armstrong, 80, the first person to walk on the moon, presented an award at the US Space &#038; Rocket Centre in Huntsville, Alabama, to Georg von Tiesenhausen, 96, whom the former astronaut warmly called &#8220;Dr von T&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Armstrong, who has made infrequent public speeches since landing on the moon in 1969, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s very comfortable for me to be in the company of many old associates.&#8221;</p>
<p>Standing under a full-size Saturn V test rocket from the Apollo programme, Mr Armstrong praised Mr von Tiesenhausen as a space visionary, a great teacher and a top flight engineer.</p>
<p>&#8220;He is and has been a person who imagines what can be, and he has the skills to convert that imagine into reality,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Mr von Tiesenhausen was among dozens of engineers who helped develop V-2 rockets for Germany during the Second World War and moved to the United States after the fighting ended. They formed the backbone of the fledgling US space programme at Huntsville&#8217;s Redstone Arsenal in the 1950s and 60s.</p>
<p>Working under Wernher von Braun, Mr von Tiesenhausen helped design the battery-powered rover that astronauts drove on the lunar surface during the last three Apollo missions to the moon in 1971 and 1972.</p>
<p>Mr von Tiesenhausen was honoured as both an innovative space designer and an engaged, inquisitive man who still works with students, has an up-to-date mobile phone and knows about pop sensation Lady Gaga.</p>
<p>The German, who received a lifetime achievement award in education from the state-operated space museum, only recently gave up lecturing to students.</p>
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