Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Farewell, Neil Armstrong. Most famous pedestrian
not he, the loftily mounted equestrian
A small step for man...
He went far in a can.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/25/neil-armstrong-spaceIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Brian Dixon
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yes another sad day,now walking on the moon.rip.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Certainly a very brave man - they all were, all the men and women who have ventured into space.
RIP Neil Armstrong.
Roger
Jan Higgins
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I remember staying up all night to watch that first walk. R.I.P.
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Guest 708- Registered: 22 Dec 2010
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Yes a brave man. RIP Neil Armstrong.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I stayed up too Jan. I was 21 at the time and really excited about space travel, still am really, but less so now.
I think that was around the time that the first series of Startrek was on too and I believe one of the episodes mentioned that back in the late 1960s, man first went to the moon.
Roger
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Yes space travel was very exciting at the time, and that Richard Strauss theme tune adapted for all things space age...well it got us all going. Neil Armstrong was a true hero and we couldnt quite believe it... a man had walked on the moon. His first words were dynamic, and have gone down in history as one of the best quotes of all time.
A great man. He flew the lunar craft onto the moons surface manually I believe and made it with only minutes to spare as the fuel was running out, according to the BBC.
RIP.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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60 seconds of fuel left..........`The Eagle has landed`
`the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at
you think of Neil and give him a wink`
Guest 650- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Goodness. Another icon lost. May he rest in peace.
I remember to this day my dear old grandmother saying that she was so thankful that she had been "spared" as she put it, so that she could have lived to see the moon landing. When she was born even the first powered flight was years away.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Naturally there is much more on the life and times of this pedestrian-Prometheus. Video, stills and full Obituary...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Was very sad to hear that, may he RIP.
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I stayed up all night, I remember writing down all the radio transmissions between the Eagle and Houston in my scrap book. R.I.P. Neil Armstrong
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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I have been to the Neil Armstrong museum in Wapakoneta Ohio,he also teached at the Univ of Cinncinatti until recently,the people of Ohio wanted a state funeral but his family said no,he was just doing his job,they said the best way to remember Neil is when you look at the moon,just smile back!
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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A clarification of the Armstrong Obituary...
• Neil Armstrong obituary was amended because the original said that there is no single clear photograph of Armstrong on the lunar surface. There is, in fact, one photograph of Armstrong on the moon. An image of him working on the base of the lunar module in the Sea of Tranquility bears the following agency caption: The Moon -- 20 Jul 1969 -- Apollo 11 astronauts trained on Earth to take individual photographs in succession in order to create a series of frames that could be assembled into panoramic images. This frame from Aldrin's panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site is the only good picture of mission commander Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface -- Picture by Edwin Aldrin/Lightroom Photos/NASA
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The family have announced that U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong is to be buried at sea...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/u-astronaut-neil-armstrong-buried-sea-family-203900243.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.