Robert Seamans Jr. was associate and deputy NASA administrator from 1960-68 where he was instrumental in development of manned spaceflight. He would later serve as MIT Dean of Engineering, Director of the Draper Lab, and a senior lecturer in MIT Aero-Astro, which named its Learning Laboratory in his honor. He passed away in 2008. In this video, Dr. Seamans and astronaut Neil Armstrong (with a guest appearance by Buzz Aldrin) deliver the 1994 Aero-Astro Gardener Lecture and speak about their experiences in the race to the moon.