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     Tom_b |
The first man on the moon Neil Armstrong died today at age 82 years old. | ||
| Ltbuell |
I read about that.I watched on tv and saw the actual landing and walk.Very awesome.Gawd,how i miss all that and how proud we as Americans felt then....now look at how it has progressed to.Pretty sad if you ask me.Glad Neil got to live and experience what he did.Enjoy your "walk" Neil. | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
R.I.P. Neil I hope we can do you proud. Many great things on the horizon | ||
| Kenm123t |
Neil Say Hi To Gus and Gordo ! | ||
| Slaughter |
Neil Armstrong, you are truly to be missed. We're so rarely seeing people worthy of our admiration any longer. I had the rare privelege of meeting him a couple decades ago at a small after-work meeting. Everybody was fawning over him with their recollections of where they were when Armstrong stepped out of the Eagle onto the moon. He was amused when I was able to tell him that when he and Buzz were touching down - I was outside the house where a group of us had gathered to watch the event... doing a futile hitting-on a young lady. We DID go back in to watch the "One Small Step for a Man..." That got a LOUD laugh (and a rarely-given autograph). He was a top of the line test pilot, one of the amazing few who flew the X15 before becoming an astronaut and a truly admirable man. I can only hope that the future engineers might yet be inspired as many of us were inspired by those such as Neil Armstrong... but I worry about the future with so many celebrities, personalities and athletes being idolized. | ||
| Fltwistygirl |
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| Slaughter |
For All Mankind (1989) - a tribute to Space Program but fitting for today's loss to all of Neil Armstrong http://new.hulu.com/watch/165094?playlist_id=1058 | ||
| Tom_b |
i remember sitting on the floor of my parents home in the summer of 1969 watching his happen on an old black and white RCA T.V. | ||
| Britchri10 |
I was nine & in England. My father went out a bought our first ever TV so we could watch the landing live. RIP Neil Armstrong. Truly an inspiration to a little foreign nine year old. Chris C | ||
| Sifo |
I remember watching it at my Uncle's cabin with all my Aunts, Uncles, and cousins packed into the room in front of a little B&W set. Great bit of history. Our town named a park after Armstrong. The community center was named after Aldrin. The Pool was named after Collins. This was meant to mark that bit of history for many years. Sadly, the pool was abandoned years ago, and this year the community center has been torn down. Armstrong park is being scaled way back, eliminating soccer fields, and large areas are being left to grow wild now. Other areas are storing dirt hills. I'm not even sure where the dirt came from. It's sad that we have allowed ourselves to forget this history. | ||
| Aesquire |
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, –and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of –Wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air… Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark or even eagle flew — And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. John Gillespie Magee, Jr | ||
| Court |
The passing of Neil Armstrong is a huge thing to me personally and to our nation. Neil was among a small fraternity who represented both America's desire and relentless quest to reach beyond her boundaries and to do things other, often wise, folks dismissed as impossible. Neil is an icon from the days we were dreamers eager to pool out collective resources, intellect and courage to, literally and figuratively, go where no man had ever gone. I had a very personal connection with the Manned Space Program that some of you are aware of. And, like some of you, I vividly recall that morning as my Mom showed up at Randolph school and the teacher sent someone to help me unload the Sears black and white television from the back of her station wagon. Neil said those famous words, as he stepped onto the surface of the Moon, just about a month before Woodstock. Many of us, the baby boomer generation, were headed to get those educations our folks' never had and swore they'd work to see us get. We were a nation of do-ers and no thing, no person and no competing cause could stand in our way. As a country we saw over the horizon and vowed to go there. I'm so sorry for the family and friends who mourn Neil but more sorry for a nation struggling to recapture the vision, intellect, leadership, clarity of purpose and fortitude that Neil Armstrong embodies. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Court  | ||
| Slaughter |
From Armstrong family - posted on LiveScience.com:
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| Tom_b |
http://www.universetoday.com/97046/watch-neil-arms trongs-first-steps-on-the-moon/ | ||
| Whatever |
Although I was only two when Neil made his historic flight, my sisters were older than me. Both became engineers, with one working on the Space Shuttle program and another working on the Electric Boat. I myself went into Earth Science. I know that Neil was a part of this, if only for the fact that he was a man who had no limits, and proved all of the nay sayers wrong. The more I learn of him, the more in awe I am of his humbleness, commitment to his family and the United States of America. He was an inspiration to so many of us. He made the world a better place. He made us feel honoured to be Americans.  | ||
| Whatever |
(Message edited by Whatever on August 26, 2012) | ||
| Geforce |
I heard about it yesterday and my entire weekend has been dreary since. We've lost more than a historical figure or icon. A little part of the American spirit died with him and while it may heal over time, that part will never be the same. As many others have already said... men like Neil are few and far between, while I wasn't around to watch his landing or the finale of the Apollo missions, Neil was a hero in my eyes as a child. A dare devil, a pioneer, and a great American. Rest in peace Neil, you have now returned to that which we all came. What we only truly borrow for our short existence on Earth... star dust. | ||
| Bandm |
At the beginning of this video you can see Neil Armstrong's balls swinging below the LEM Prototype. RIP | ||
| Bluzm2 |
I too remember the landing. I watched it on a very crappy old BW TV that needed new tubes... He was a hero of mine as are/were all of the early astronauts. My neighbor grew up with all of the astronauts down in Texas. He hung out at Armstrong's house all the time. He has some pretty neat stories. His Dad (Art Hinners) was one of the engineers working on the Apollo program. He was in the room with all the junk on the table being told "Make it work." when Apollo 13 had its problems. Neal was one of the greats. I sincerely hope they have a national day of mourning for him. Flags should be at half staff country wide. He was a TRUE hero and a national treasure. RIP Neal, you will be missed. You paved the way for all future steps of greatness for the entire human race. Brad | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
A sad loss of a truly great man. As for many of my generation the Apollo project marked me, & proved that anything is possible. My literary taste for sf & fantasy stems from this too. Here's a couple of tracks from The Alan Parsons Project album "On Air" to celebrate the life of someone who made a difference. Apollo. So Far Away. I'd post the whole album, it's that good, but I'll let you discover it on your own, it's better that way. complete album here; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sojPUFWZW4 | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Test pilots and Astronauts - crazy sumnabiatches. Amazing courage. I was less than a year old at the broadcast - cant say I remember it. The slide rule is an amazing icon to engineering. Just amazing tech and images for the time RIP | ||
| Aesquire |
Neil Armstrong... Just looking at the flying bedstead crash.... 2 stories. As the Eagle came sliding down into the landing zone, going like a bat out of hell, down and sideways, the Astronauts saw house size boulders filling the target zone. Armstrong took manual control, and using the last few pounds of fuel left in the descent stage, overflew the danger, picked out a flat spot, and set it down, braking all sideways motion and vertical drop to zip, mere feet above the ground. When the touchdown light came on, the engine was shut off, and the LEM touched down with seconds of Fuel left in the tanks. Maybe not even that. During the X-15 program, he set the duration record, and overflew LA, sideways, at mach 3, due to an instrument error... http://www.sierrafoot.org/x-15/adventures/flight_0 51/flight_51.html | ||
| Sifo |
Thanks for that link Aesquire! I enjoyed reading that bit of history. | ||
| Brumbear |
I remember watching it on the console TV I had all the toys, I was 4 years old and I would sit on my sisters crib with my helmet with BLUE visor and fly to the moon every day!!!!!! Thanks Neil RIP. The GIANT step for mankind was duly noted but as I ride the roads in my BLUE visor helmet some 44 years later I can't help but note the baby steps for mankind that went unnoticed  |
