R/V Neil Armstrong: Specifications
| Displacement | 3,204 long tons (LT) |
| Length | Overall (LOA): 238 ft. Waterline (LWL): 230 ft. |
| Beam | 50 ft. |
| Draft | 15 ft. |
| Speed | 12 kts. (sustained) |
| Installed power |
3952 kW (total) |
| Range | 11,500 nm |
| Endurance | 40 days |
| Towing | 10,000 lbs. at 6 kts. 25,000 lbs. at 4 kts. |
| Working deck area |
Aft of deckhouse: 1,873 sq. ft. Total stern: 2,557 sq. ft. Starboard side: 80 sq. ft. |
| Laboratory area | Main lab: 1,023 sq. ft. Wet lab: 398 sq. ft. Computer lab: 311 sq. ft. Staging bay: 303 sq. ft. |
| Science berths | 24 |
| Crew berths | 20 |
Other
- Controllable pitch propellers
- Directional bow thruster, tunnel stern thruster
- Dynamic positioning (+/- 5 meters in sea state 5)
- Able to work near first-year ice (ice class D0)
- Deep-water multibeam, mid-water multibeam, subbottom profiler, single-beam survey system, ADCP, acoustic navigation and tracking
- Hull form diverts bubbles from sonar area
- Main crane (11 ton); A-frame (15 ton); starboard crane (5.5 ton, motion-compensated)
- Cranes, CTD handling, and starboard side handling systems reach to waterline