RIP Neil Armstrong

I liked the final sentence in the statement from his family:
"...the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."

I'm sure many of us will be doing just that.
 
gm43uk said:
I liked the final sentence in the statement from his family:
"...the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."

I'm sure many of us will be doing just that.
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I've done it tonight. ;)
 
acetone said:
Even at the very heart of the cold war Russia never once question his achievements, one of very very few people that the whole population of earth will have heard of, a true legend in every sense of the word.
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More than that: they tracked the missions independently.

If anyone would have loved to have blown the lid on a hoax, it would have been the Russians. But they didn't. They knew that Apollo had been successful.
 
"Good luck Mr Kalinsky"... punchline to the classic Armstrong joke..
 
Lynton said:
"Good luck Mr Kalinsky"... punchline to the classic Armstrong joke..
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Classic joke? ....... Huh?

Armstrong gets my respect! The word hero is used too often these days but not in the case of Neil Armstrong!
 
I wonder if many people know that, if it wasn't for the Apollo 1 tragedy, Gus Grissom would probably have been the first man to walk on the moon.
 
Ricardodaforce said:
I wonder if many people know that, if it wasn't for the Apollo 1 tragedy, Gus Grissom would probably have been the first man to walk on the moon.
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Personally, I had no idea ... off to wikipedia to read-up on this
 
Wail said:
Personally, I had no idea ... off to wikipedia to read-up on this
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During the Apollo era, chief of the Astronaut Office was Deke Slayton. It was Slayton who wrote the crew rosters. He was also close to (fellow Mercury 7 astronaut) Virgil Grissom. In Deke's autobiography he stated that Grissom would have commanded the first mission to land on the moon.
 
I wasn't born when the moon landing happened but I love everything to do with space and I have the upmost respect for neil armstrong and his crew. It takes a bunch of cast iron balls to strap yourself to a potential explosive rocket back in the days when safety was put asside in order to win the space race.

I also get very annoyed and angry at those that oppose the authenticity of the moon landing, when all argumenets put forward by the attention seeking media whore conspiracy theorists has been answered.
 
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