First man on the moon dead

[Iceaxe]

Neil Armstrong has died....

That man was a national treasure. America lost one of the biggest figures of history today. I will look to the sky tonight.



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[Iceaxe]

The guy had huge brass ones that clanged when he walked..... Cool as a cucumber when he found out the place they were going to land wasn't safe, and used up all but a few seconds of fuel piloting the LM to a safer location.... and scared the hell out of everybody in the control room when he did it.

They didn't even have hand held calculators in 1969. The engineers still used slide rules to do calculations.

The guidance computer programming was bundles of woven wires!

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[restrac2000]

He will always be remembered and appreciated.

I spent my childhood and early adult life trying to find a way to be like him. I had black and white images from the mission all over my room. I attended every flight and aeronautics program as I could as a student. I joined and worked with NASA Langeley for a year and half as a teenager. I joined NJROTC and Civil Air Patrol accelerate my acceptance and movement through the Naval Academy. All to become the pilot of the space shuttle. Ket that dream alive until for more than a decade, until we moved out west.

That ultimately never happened....but I was lucky enough to grow up in an era with real, humble, and sincere heroes who helped me believe it was possible.

He will be missed but never forgotten.

Phillip

[denaliguide]

when you look up at the moon tonight, shed a tear. rip neil.

[DiscGo]

Good post Shane.

Have you guys ever seen the documentary "When we Left the Earth"? I gained a lot more respect for Neil Armstrong during that documentary and I already had thought quite highly of him. Good man!