Gen. “Jimmy” Doolittle, left, famed World War II aviation, Eric Sloane, center, artist and Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, look over Sloane’s painting “Alone,” which depicts Charles Lindbergh’s trans–Atlantic solo flight 50 years ago, at the Air and Space Museum in Washington on Feb. 4, 1977, Lindberg’s 75th birth date. The painting will be auctioned off for the Charles A. Lindberg Fund’s grants to young scientists and explorers. In background is Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis.” (AP Photo)