http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/08/25/astronaut-neil-armstrong-dies-at-82/
That is sad. R.I.P.
Sad 
Bummer.
RIP.
He had some quirky unique perspectives about interviews & talking about what he has done.
I’d be happy to make it to 82 w/o pooping & peeing all over myself.
What an awesome life to get to live.
Thanks for your service Mr. Armstrong.
I think he will remain one of a handful of men to step foot on the moon for the next century.
Check out the original URL (copied from Belmont’s post):
http ://usnews. nbcnews. com/_news/2012/08/25/13478643-astronaut-neil-young-first-man-to-walk-on-moon-dies-at-age-82?lite
Some jack-wagon at nbc news thought Neil Young was the first man on the moon…
We are diminished.
One of my heroes growing up.
One giant loss for mankind.
-Jax
If a government does not do it,a private comany will by 2030. SpaceX will soon have about all the necessary capability in-house sans Lander. They are only a couple years from putting a man into Orbit. Their capsule is Deep-Space capable and they are well into developing a rocket that with two launches can replicate the performance of a Saturn V.
Hell, Musk intends to put people on Mars within 20 years and far be it from me to poo-poo him. So far, everybody who has doen that has ended up with serious egg on thier face.
But RIP Neil Armstrong.
PS Neil Young did get pretty high in 69.
I’m not saying we won’t be able to do it, just that it won’t be done much. Kinda like going to the North Pole, for most people it just isn’t worth the effort.
On a related note, I was sitting in a pizzeria tonight near a table of people in their early 20s. Surfing his iphone one of them announced that “Neil Armstrong died.” The other three people looked at him quizzically and then one asked “What team did he play for?”
:rolleyes:
Sweet jesus… That should be criminal.
you shoulda decked them the same way Neil did to the jackwagon who said the landing was fake!
It was “Buzz” Aldrin. He wasn’t about to take any shit from a phony reporter. He definitely “manned up” at 72!
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-16-2002/moment-of-zen---aldrin-punch
i screwed the pooch on that one!
but, as the legends pass away, some d-bag is going to try his hand at revisionist history since the primary info sources are no longer here…
It’s hard for me to fathom that it was before they were born, that said I still knew who the fuck John Ford was. That there is apparently several generations now who mostly don’t know who these guys are is stunning to me.
Their names should be synonymous with Columbus and Magellan. To go to the moon with the primitive equipment and rinky dink procedures we had in place makes them IMO the bravest explorers of all time.
They should be on the short list of greatest men who ever lived.
I’ve had the honor of meeting both Armstrong and Aldrin; I simply don’t know what to say…
The director?
Or did you mean Henry Ford of Ford Motors?
Godspeed, brother!
Crap, I meant Henry Ford, thanks for catching that.