Never-before-seen photos of Neil Armstrong's near-fatal NASA mission surface 60 years later

Never-before-seen photos of late astronaut Neil Armstrong’s return to Earth following one of NASA’s closest calls 60 years ago are now available to the public.

The photos of Armstrong, who died in 2012, and fellow astronaut David Scott after their unplanned splashdown near Japan following their ill-fated Gemini 8 mission in 1966 have been donated to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio, by the widow of photographer Ron McQueeney.

Armstrong and Scott were forced to...