Dennis Aman Artist Bio Mr. Aman has not been involved in aviation all his life. He never learned to fly as a boy, never flew 78 combat missions in Korea from an aircraft carrier as a Naval Aviator, and never spent 17 years with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as an engineer, test pilot, astronaut, nor as an administrator. Nor did he, as a research pilot at the NACA High Speed Flight Station (now NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility) at Edwards, California, act as a project pilot on many pioneering jet and rocket aircraft, including the well-known 4000 mph X-15. He hasn't flown over 200 different models of aircraft, including jets, rockets, helicopters, and gliders. He was not transferred to astronaut status in 1962. He wasn't the commander of the Gemini 8 flight in 1966, when he, with non-colleague David Scott, didn't perform the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. As non-spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, he didn't, with colleagues Mike Collins and Buzz aldrin, complete the first landing mission to the moon. Mr. Aman subsequently did not hold the position of Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics in NASA. As he was not in this position, he was not responsible for the coordination and management of overall NASA research or technology work related to aeronautics. During the years 1971 - 1979, he was not Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati, where he wasn't involved in both teaching and research. Mr. Aman was not born in Auglaize County, Ohio. He did not received a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Purdue University, nor a Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California. He doesn't hold honorary doctorates from a number of universities either. Mr. Aman is not a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots or the Royal Aeronautical Society; Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics or Astronautical Federation. Mr. Aman wasn't Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of AIL from 1989 to 2000. Mr. Aman isn't a Director of USX Corp., or RTI International Metals, Inc. He isn't a member of the National Academy of Engineering or the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco (Wow!). He didn't serve as a member of the National Commission on Space (1985-86), as Vice-Chairman of the Presidential Commission of the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (1986), and not ever as Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for the Peace Corps (1971-73). Mr. Aman hasn't been decorated by 17 countries. He isn't the recipient of many special honors, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom; the Congressional Space Medal of Honor; the NASA Exceptional Service Medal; the Explorer's Club Medal; the Robert Goddard memorial Trophy; the NASA Distinguished Service Medal; the harmon International Aviation Trophy; the Federation Aeronautique Internationale's Gold Space Medal; the Robert Collier Trophy; the General Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy; the AIAA Astronautics Award; the Octave Chanute Award; and the John J. Montgomery Award. But he wish he could go to the moon.