RIP Neil Armstrong

lowend1 · August 25, 2012, 02:51:55 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/25/astronaut-neil-armstrong-dies-at-82/

(and good luck, Mr. Gorsky

)

ilan · August 25, 2012, 03:08:18 PM

RIP

A true hero.

Highlander · August 25, 2012, 03:15:57 PM

Gotta go check the moon... I'm sure it looks a little dimmer tonight...

RIP

OldManC · August 25, 2012, 04:13:24 PM

Pilgrim · August 25, 2012, 05:09:13 PM

It took mega-guts to do what he did. A great man, now gone. R.I.P.

Highlander · August 25, 2012, 05:53:09 PM

I've been sitting here trying to finish a transcription and I'm stumped by this... all I have to do is close my eyes and I remember being up in the early hours of July '69, along with a sizeable chunk of the population of this tiny ball of rock and being united in hope...

sniper · August 25, 2012, 08:56:32 PM

i was a young navy corpsman on duty in the OR USNH Camp LeJeune, NC when he walked. RIP Sir.

Dave W · August 25, 2012, 09:39:17 PM

Quote from: Pilgrim on August 25, 2012, 05:09:13 PM
It took mega-guts to do what he did. A great man, now gone. R.I.P.

You bet it did. Took guts enough to be an astronaut, even more to do what he did.

drbassman · August 26, 2012, 05:24:46 AM

God bless you Neil. I think everyone remembers where they were when he walked. I watched it on TV in Hong Kong and it was a special moment in world history.

nofi · August 26, 2012, 08:06:52 AM

i remember. it was my birthday, july 20, 1969. what a gift for the world.

godofthunder · August 26, 2012, 08:42:36 AM

I was a NASA geek as a kid, I followed the space program closely. R.I.P. Neil Armstrong.

uwe · August 27, 2012, 06:54:41 AM

I hope his last moment was a small gentle step for him - sure a sad one for mankind.

I remember seeing it on TV - most of us baby boomers probably do. At that time I believed that we would have colonies on the moon and other planets by now.

Bionic-Joe · August 27, 2012, 07:21:24 AM

Sad Sad day it was ....I only hope we will have great men like him to continue to travel and explore space.

Aussie Mark · August 27, 2012, 04:58:18 PM

Quote from: uwe on August 27, 2012, 06:54:41 AM
I remember seeing it on TV - most of us baby boomers probably do.

+1

It was a school day for us - I was 8 years old, and our class huddled around a small black and white TV set to watch it.

uwe · August 28, 2012, 10:26:20 AM

Except (and under the explicit reservation: "for those of us who believe the moon landing wasn't staged in the first place ..."

) - I just learned that - we never saw him, we saw the second guy which he filmed and photographed - there is no official picture of Armstrong as first man on the moon because no one bothered to take one. The closest you get is his reflection in the guy's helmet visor he is photographing.

This famous picture here is not him, he's the little astronaut mirrored in the helmet visor of the large pic astronaut (Buzz Aldrin):

Enlarged, the visor reflection looks like this:

There are also three coincidental shots/film outtakes of him near the lunar module, two bad quality and one showing just his back, all three not one of the official photos we all have in our minds:

If I may venture forth a slice of strictly personal opinion (with all due respect for those who believe that Kennedy was shot by someone else, there was no moon landing at all and that the CIA/FBI blew up the WTC): If this had all happened in the studio wouldn't they have taken a decent shot of Neil too? It's not like they would have been under time pressure for fear of oxygen running out, you know ...