God Speed Neil Armstrong

[muggsy]

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[wyntrout]

I got off from work so that I could go home and watch the live broadcast of him stepping onto the moon's surface for the first time. I have black and white photos of my 19" black and white TV's screen of that great event.

R.I.P. Neil. It's a shame that we haven't gotten further out in space and that Obama cut off NASA because he needed to buy votes and bankrupt the nation's economy.

Wynn:(

[ripley16]

He certainly had "the right stuff".

[QuercusMax]

I got off from work so that I could go home and watch the live broadcast of him stepping onto the moon's surface for the first time. I have black and white photos of my 19" black and white TV's screen of that great event.

R.I.P. Neil. It's a shame that we haven't gotten further out in space and that Obama cut off NASA because he needed to buy votes and bankrupt the nation's economy.

Wynn:(

I, too, remember watching the blurry, B&W TV feed coming back live from the Moon, and hearing Neil's now-famous words.

Accomplishments like that made one very proud of our country, and to be a citizen of it.

Now it's 40 years since man last visited the Moon, with no prospect of return in sight. Do we actually need to go to the Moon? No, but doing it the first time certainly gave our country a unity of purpose that does not seem to have been duplicated since - and with nothing else in sight that would ever do that again.

:( :( :(

[Sage]

R.I.P. There will never be another first man to walk on the moon.

[CJB]

He was a true gem

[AJBert]

I remember being very dissappointed when man first landed on the moon. I was a young man at the ripe old age of 5 years old and walked outside at night with a flashlight. I flashed it on and off a few times and waited. I did it again. And again.

I came back into the house so mad that the astronauts didn't flash me back!

Just wish my grandkids could experience what I did back then. RIP Mr. Armstrong. You were truly an American hero.

[DKD]

I can remember that moment in time like it was yesterday. My entire familt circled in front of the TV. I remember my fathers as he watched intensley. It was my dads team which he headed up the design and buld of the LEMS desent Engine that landed them on the moon. It was also that same engine that brought Apollo 13 back from the aborted mission.
Makes me extremely proud of my dad and sad for the lose of a great American. My dad also got to meet all of the astronaughts after the life boat mission, even got a autograughed plaque with a piece of the cargo netting from the LEM from Appollo13 mounted on said plaque.
Rest in Peace Neil Armstrong, you are now in a better place and belong to the ages.

[QuercusMax]

I can remember that moment in time like it was yesterday. My entire familt circled in front of the TV. I remember my fathers as he watched intensley. It was my dads team which he headed up the design and buld of the LEMS desent Engine that landed them on the moon. It was also that same engine that brought Apollo 13 back from the aborted mission.
Makes me extremely proud of my dad and sad for the lose of a great American. My dad also got to meet all of the astronaughts after the life boat mission, even got a autograughed plaque with a piece of the cargo netting from the LEM from Appollo13 mounted on said plaque.
Rest in Peace Neil Armstrong, you are now in a better place and belong to the ages.

Wow, great connection to the Apollo program! You're right to be proud of your father.