The Dryden Flight Research Center has officially changed its name following President Barack Obama signing of a congressional resolution to honor late Apollo astronaut Neil Armstrong. NASA, which operates the center at Edwards Air Force Base, has put together a working group that will implement the administrative and other changes needed to change the name to the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center. “All these processes will be worked in over time; some will start immediately, some will take a while,” said Alan Brown, a Dryden spokesman. The most noticeable changes for the public will be in signage at the Antelope Valley facility, printed material and on the center’s webpage. Back office functions that will change include contracts with outside vendors, human resources and payroll functions, and general business functions. The resolution, however, had no funding attached to pay for the changes and still needs to be determined. The resolution was sponsored by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, to honor Armstrong, the first man on the moon, who passed away in August 2012. It was signed by Obama on Thursday. In the years before joining the astronaut corps in 1962, Armstrong was a test pilot at Dryden, which was then called the High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards. He logged more than 900 missions flying such aircraft as the X-15 and the Bell X-1B. The center was later named for Hugh Dryden, who served as deputy administrator of NASA at the time of his death in 1965. However, Dryden’s name will not disappear from Edwards. The resolution calls for renaming the western aeronautical test range for the administrator.