The first man to set foot on the moon was committed to the sea in a ceremony aboard the USS Philippine Sea on Friday.

U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Paul Nagy and Neil Armstrong’s wife, Carol spread Armstong’s ashes into the Atlantic Ocean today.

Hundreds of mourners attended Armstrong’s public memorial held in Washington D.C. at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday.

Prior to his joining NASA’s space program, Armstrong was a Navy fighter pilot serving in the Korean War..

It was on the Apollo 11 mission, as commander of the Lunar mission, that Armstrong climbed down to the last rung of the lunar lander’s ladder, said, “I’m going to step off the LEM now,” then turned and cemented his name into the history books as he set his left boot onto the lunar surface in the Sea of Tranquility at 2:56 UTC July 21, 1969 and said, “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

The 82-year-old Armstrong died after complications of heart surgery on August 25th.