posted 06-25-2018 10:02 PM               

Tizzano made the trek from the Columbus suburb to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum, to take the first steps in sculpting a life size bronze statue of Armstrong.

When completed, the statue commemorating Armstrong's homecoming parade following the first moon landing in 1969, will likely be placed in downtown Wapakoneta.

posted 07-27-2019 12:07 PM               

"There were a lot of people who contributed a lot of photos as reference. Hopefully, I pulled it off," Tizzano said. "It was almost impossible to find really decent photos of him, especially with a broad smile that they wanted from that little newspaper photo."

It took Tizzano about 250 hours to complete the statue, about twice that amount for making the mold and casting the statue.

"The parade was actually here on Auglaize Street, so this is a proper setting for him and his statue," said Dan Graf, vice president of the Armstrong Air & Space Museum Association. "It really represents the first time that we had a permanent structure here acknowledging Neil's accomplishments here in downtown Wapakoneta."