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25 Aug 12 - 03:43 PM (#3395035) Subject: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Amergin And so passes a legend. I was not alive when he walked on the moon....but we always heard about him...we all wanted to be astronauts because of men like him Scott Glenn, Buzz Alldrin and Luke Skywalker... Neil Armstrong Passes Away |
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25 Aug 12 - 04:15 PM (#3395045) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: fat B****rd I watched it and still don't quite believe it. RIP Mr. Armstrong. |
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25 Aug 12 - 04:25 PM (#3395051) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Bonzo3legs My Dad got me out of bed to watch it - RIP Neil Armstrong. |
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25 Aug 12 - 04:27 PM (#3395053) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: catspaw49 If you were alive though you remember exactly where you were at the moment he stepped out onto the Lunar surface. Neil Armstrong with tens of thousands of workers supporting the effort took that giant leap and there can be only one first. Neil was from Ohio and has retired to his home state with little fanfare.....a pretty private person. But there could be only one first and Neil was the man. Somehow when I heard this news a half hour ago I felt sort of empty. It was a a massive achievement and old Neil was just out there on the point, but there can be only one first. There were some really wonderful missions to follow including the amazing story of Apollo 13. Men dug up rocks and drove around and even hit golf balls on the moon. Twelve men walked around on a heavenly body and excited us with exploits that we knew we would never make. The astronaut corps was made up of good people and supported by good people but when the goal was attained to walk upon the moon , it was Neil Armstrong......and there can be only one first. Upon hearing the news my eyes immediately welled up with tears. I didn't know Neil or even think about him much as the years have passed. I look back through the years and find what a big deal the space program was to me and to many. Even as I railed against the war and my government and others called us peace-nik hippie freaks, we all came together on that July night in 1969 when Neil Armstrong spoke the words, "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." We went back to our corners and continued the fight but we had gone to the moon and Neil was the first and there can be only one first. More than a man, a piece of history died today. Thank you Neil. You were the first. Spaw |
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25 Aug 12 - 04:28 PM (#3395055) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: bobad I did see it but don't remember where I was - it was the 60s after all. RIP Mr. Armstrong |
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25 Aug 12 - 04:34 PM (#3395061) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Melissa NASA article/obit http://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/features/armstrong_obit.html |
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25 Aug 12 - 05:12 PM (#3395070) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Janie You said it better than I could have, 'Spaw. For many just a few years younger than am I (60) it might be hard to imagine how fantastic and astounding - astonishing- those first years of manned space flight were. First man in space, Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961 to first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969, barely 8 years later. |
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25 Aug 12 - 05:20 PM (#3395074) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Beer I remember exactly where I was for John Kennedy and do remember watching Neil Armstrong first step. Trying to recall where i was to Bodad. 1969 was a very interesting year in Montreal. Sympathies to his family and friends. Adrien |
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25 Aug 12 - 06:04 PM (#3395095) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Jeri I was at a horse show/gymkhana when they landed on the moon, and it was announced over the loudspeakers. I was home and watching on TV when he walked on the moon. The world seemed full of possibilities, wonder, and open doors |
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25 Aug 12 - 06:10 PM (#3395096) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Janie I was quite taken by the quote from Neil Armstrong with which the CNN article closed. "Looking back, we were really very privileged to live in that thin slice of history where we changed how man looks at himself and what he might become and where he might go," Armstrong said. |
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25 Aug 12 - 06:49 PM (#3395105) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Gallus Moll Please someone- put a link to the thread about John Stewart's song 'Armstrong'? |
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25 Aug 12 - 06:56 PM (#3395108) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Janie Certainly! Armstrong |
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25 Aug 12 - 07:06 PM (#3395112) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Gallus Moll Thanks Janie! |
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25 Aug 12 - 09:16 PM (#3395170) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Beer Gallus, I hate to admit it but this is the first time I have heard this song. The 60ties did this to some folks i guess. Thanks for asking and thank you Janie for posting it. Powerful song. ad. |
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25 Aug 12 - 09:17 PM (#3395172) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Beer Oh!, and I shared it on facebook in case there are others out there who haven't heard it. ad. |
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25 Aug 12 - 09:26 PM (#3395178) Subject: Obit: Neil Armstrong, First Man On The Moon From: Rapparee CINCINNATI (AP) - Neil Armstrong was a soft-spoken engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon. The modest man, who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter-million miles away, but credited others for the feat, died Saturday. He was 82. Armstrong died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, his family said in a statement. Armstrong had had a bypass operation this month, according to NASA. His family didn't say where he died; he had lived in suburban Cincinnati. |
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25 Aug 12 - 09:28 PM (#3395179) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Don Firth I remember exactly where I was. I became an avid fan of "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" in the funny papers at the age of six and have been a space freak ever since, reading lots of science fiction and science fact (a couple of astronomy courses at the university), and followed everything that was going on in the space program. In June of 1969, I was living in a bachelor apartment in Wilsonian Apartments in Seattle's University District and working at Boeing at the time. On the night in question, I was glued to my old black-and-white television set, watching the whole thing! Neil Armstrong, the first human on the moon, followed shortly thereafter by Buzz Aldrin. Well done, guys!! Next on the agenda, Mars and beyond! Don Firth |
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25 Aug 12 - 09:28 PM (#3395180) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Bobert I'm real sorry to hear of his passing... Really... I remember it well... I was living outside of Montpelier, Va. way back in the sticks on a friend's farm... About a quarter mile walk was the Harris farm, a farm owned by a black family that had held that land going back to just after the Civil War, and there was a path over to it and well, I kinda had some interest in one of Mr. Harris's grand-daughters... So the day after the landing, my friend and I had been invited over and I remember they had a fire going over there and we were all sitting around that fire and talkin' about stuff and Mr. Harris went into "Man didn't land on the moon"... "That stuff was all filmed out in the dessert"... Well he was up in the years so you don't go arguing with old people who is set in their ways so I let it go but... ...seems that years later we still have these people amongst us... Funny... B~ |
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25 Aug 12 - 10:00 PM (#3395189) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: Beer How true Bobert. My grand-son said to me this afternoon that "Myth Busters" proved that it was fake. They had a line attached to him. I looked at him and said, "I think they had a line attached to him because there is no gravity on the moon so they didn't want to take a chance of loosing him" that was the best i could come up with. Oh!, he is 13. Ad. |
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25 Aug 12 - 10:14 PM (#3395196) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: SINSULL John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin...I met the cosmonauts in NYC - I represented the Girl Scouts though I didn't have a uniform. Could have scored with an astronaut but chose not to. So young. So sure I too would visit outer space and walk on the moon. I have always wished I could just touch Neil Armstrong's hand. RIP Mary |
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25 Aug 12 - 10:45 PM (#3395205) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong From: number 6 Neil Armstrong, and the rest of those Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts were certainly heroes of mine and always will be ... Apollo 11 was a giant leap in technology, and a giant leap in courage for those men ... but unfortunately it was not a giant leap in humanity as it should have been ... I and many others wish it was. Neil Armstrong, may he find eternal peace. biLL |
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26 Aug 12 - 12:40 AM (#3395227) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: Rapparee The stars in heaven, they are looking kindly down. |
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26 Aug 12 - 05:15 AM (#3395269) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: GUEST,Shimrod Rest In Peace, First Man on the Moon! You were the coolest person ever! I feel very privileged to have lived through the slice of history where, you, a human being set foot on another planet (OK, a moon). I sincerely hope that future generations of humans have the guts and determination to keep up the pace that you and your colleagues set back in 1969. |
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26 Aug 12 - 06:17 AM (#3395293) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: ChanteyLass I was camping in Wales with my childhood English penpal and some friends. We sat quietly listening and grinning in our tent as we listened to the broadcast from a transistor radio in a neighboring tent. |
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26 Aug 12 - 06:18 AM (#3395294) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: GUEST,mauvepink I do not have a great many heroes in my life... but Neil Armstrong has always been there, along with his cohorts. I remember the whole Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions. Neil Armstrong was a living legend among the astronaut corps themselves and earned tremendous respect. I watched those fuzzy pictures of his first steps on the moon on a black and white television that night back in July 1969. I still have a picture off the front of the Daily Express newspaper my Dad brought home from work the morning after. It's sadly ironic that we have no actual pictures of the first man to step on the moon. Not one shot was taken of him as the planned 'photocall' passed by with Buzz Aldrin buy collecting rocks. We have his reflection in Aldrin's space helmet visor in the shot that most will remember. My phone has 100 times the computing power that the lunar module had back then. Neil Armstrong went on to manual in the late landing to 'hand fly' it onto the moon as the computer became overloaded and they ran desperately short on fuel. None of the drama was ever reflected in his voice. Consumate aviator and professional. On the 40th Anniversay, in 2009, I wrote a song. I post it here now in memory and dedication to Neil Armstrong. May he rest in peace and sleep with the spirit of eagles and angels. Tranquility base indeed! mp Just Twelve Men Got To Walk Upon the Moon - 20th July 2009 "That was one small step for man: A giant leap for Mankind" Came a message from the tranquil sea The twentieth of July, Nineteen Sixty Nine They landed on the Moon for you and me Chorus For I know they were brave: My heroes to the end Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins: Are on my mind again And all the ones that followed them: Apollo was stopped too soon Just twelve men got to walk upon the moon. "Here men from the planet Earth first stepped foot upon the Moon They came in peace for all Mankind" The little metal plaque on the lunar lander's legs We all watched and wondered what they would find Chorus Grissom, White and Chaffee, on Apollo One they died Killed by fire still standing on the ground Testing things to make it safe for other astronauts A sad day for Apollo as we mourned Chorus Lovell, Haise and Swigert, Apollo Thirteen's crew "Houston, we have a problem" came their cry Would they get back down, get them safely back to earth? Or would we see three more brave men have to die? Chorus And so it was we watched our sets just forty years ago Mankind's first fumbling steps out in space We had great plans back then that now are just a dream It's now more of a crawl and not a race Chorus |
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26 Aug 12 - 07:01 AM (#3395304) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: ranger1 I was born that year, a mere four months before the moon landing and Armstrong's first step. I envy those who can remember that event. |
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26 Aug 12 - 07:22 AM (#3395309) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: Gallus Moll thread seems to have disappeared -- hope this brings it back? |
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26 Aug 12 - 07:24 AM (#3395312) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: Gallus Moll just realised it had gone to the non-music section - even tho there are now two songs withinn the discussion -- - - |
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26 Aug 12 - 08:41 AM (#3395344) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: Musket Not many events stand out for all time, and those of us who remember it, in my case as a young lad, have a privilege that nobody alive before or afterwards will have a claim on. His famous words will echo in history when it will take latter day archeologists to know anything else about our time. I reckon it is that monumental, I really do. |
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26 Aug 12 - 09:12 AM (#3395354) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: GUEST,Peter Laban Image |
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26 Aug 12 - 09:20 AM (#3395358) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: Ed T I wonder what the moon voyage dis-believers are thinking, or denying today? |
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26 Aug 12 - 09:26 AM (#3395360) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: GUEST,999 He certainly inspired the creative side of people. RIP. |
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26 Aug 12 - 02:34 PM (#3395486) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: catspaw49 A classmate from Berea replied to my posting in Facebook. We were both on campus for different reasons that summer evening. I posted back to him saying that sometimes it all seems long ago and sometimes like yesterday. When I wrote the few paragraphs above on Neil Armstrong it seemed his small step was long ago. When Bob posted he'd been in Boone watching in the lobby, it suddenly seemed like yesterday............. Spaw |
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26 Aug 12 - 04:04 PM (#3395533) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: Nigel Parsons R.I.P. He was the one who 'boldly went where no man had gone before'. I stayed up to watch it (via early satellite link) on the BBC. Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon in the early hours of 21 July 1969. The pictures were 'grainy' but they gave memories to last a lifetime. Once more, R.I.P. |
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26 Aug 12 - 05:54 PM (#3395572) Subject: RE: Obit: Neil Armstrong, Astronaut (1930-2012) From: Janie That summer was a tumultous one for me - 17 years old, just out of high school and excited and also very nervous about leaving home for my first year of college, and very, very hard to get along with for my parents and family. In a snit about some inane something or other, I had declined to go with the rest of the family to the home of close family friends for supper and to watch. I lay on my parent's bed watching the broadcast on their little black and white portable TV. Much to my disappointment and chagrin, I dozed off and missed the live broadcast, awaking a bit later to watch the rebroadcasts. To this day, feel like I cheated myself out of watching history as it happened. |
