R/V Neil Armstrong Fuels in Detroit on Her Way to Duluth

DETROIT, MI – The oceanographic research vessel Neil Armstrong stopped in Detroit Friday to fuel. By 9 p.m. she was headed upriver and will pass Port Huron in the dark.

Owned by the Office of Naval Research, operated by WHOI, and shared by the US scientific community through University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS), Armstrong is on its first-ever research mission in fresh water!

The 238-foot ship is traveling through a network of rivers, locks, and inland waterways on an 11-day journey to Lake Superior. After voyaging 2500 nautical miles, it will stop in Duluth on Nov. 9.

Neil Schultheiss