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Jim Prim, right, looks in on Neil Armstrong in a Gemini trainer capsule in the mid-1960s.

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Remembering a Friend and His Most Unusual Journey

Jim Prim, of Southern Pines, trained the first man to walk on the moon and other astronauts in the months leading up to that historic “giant leap for mankind” — and the Prims were friends and neighbors of the Armstrongs from the day their house burned down.

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