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RIP Neil Armstrong

Starter: britmonkey Posted: 12 years ago Views: 1.8K
#4718205
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Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012

"For those who may ask what they can do to honour Neil, we have a simple request. Honour his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and 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."


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#4718206
Lvl 59
#4718207
Lvl 26
ffs, thats what happens when you employ journalists whose balls haven't dropped yet.
#4718208
Lvl 25
R.I.P. for this big hero. The first man on the moon... This guy did something everybody wise he could do. How remarkable would that be, to be on the moon and look down on earth...
#4718209
Lvl 21
RIP Mr. Armstrong
#4718210
Lvl 13
RIP sir, you inspired multiple generations of scientists and engineers.
#4718211
Lvl 59
Quote:
Originally posted by Diz-X

R.I.P. for this big hero. The first man on the moon... This guy did something everybody wise he could do. How remarkable would that be, to be on the moon and look down on earth...


I think you would have to look up!
#4718212
Lvl 28
He had a heart of gold.

First he loses all those medals..and now his dad died. Poor Lance Armstrong.
#4718213
Lvl 30
The only man of our era who you can be sure that kids will know the name of a thousand and probably ten thousand years from now. A modest man of incredible achievements.
#4718214
Lvl 14
Reminds me of a story I read in a magazine many years ago. Neil Armstrong was asked at a press conference what he meant by his comment "good luck Mr. Gorsky" just after he walked on the moon ? Neil said that he could not tell him but the story goes that as a youngster Neil was playing ball with some friends at his home when the ball went into the next door neighbours yard (just under the bedroom window) who's name was Gorsky. He heard his heighbours arguing. This is what he heard the wife say " Blow Job !!! Youl get a blow job the day that kid next door walks on the moon".

R.I.P Mr. Armstrong.
#4718215
My heart goes out to Neils family.
#4718216
Lvl 27
R.I.P. to a true hero to many
#4718217
Lvl 59
From this: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n17/steven-shapin/what-did-you-expect

Quote:
...there was a fierce behind-the-scenes battle between them to be first to set foot on the Moon. Early plans were for Aldrin, as module pilot, to step out first, but one version reported by Smith has it that Armstrong, as mission commander, lobbied more vigorously than Aldrin, and NASA backed him up because he would be 'better equipped to handle the clamour when he got back' and, more mundanely, because his seat in the lunar module was closer to the door. Aldrin paid Armstrong back by taking no photographs of him on the Moon: the only manually taken lunar image of the First Man on the Moon is in one of many pictures Armstrong snapped of Aldrin, showing himself reflected in the visor of Aldrin's spacesuit.
#4718218
Lvl 17
What else can be said... the man made history...
#4718219
Lvl 59
Here's an excellent obituary: http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2012/08/obituary
#4718220
Lvl 6
No words can express the profound admiration I have for this man. R.I.P. Speaking of which, what with the Curiosity rover landing on Mars, when do you think NASA will get a manned mission there? Do you think it will it be a current astronaut, a teenager or someone still unborn?