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Neil Armstrong

Has died.

The space race is over

Comments

  • Not a good week for the Armstrong family.

    RIP
  • Rip a true modern hero god bless
  • i heard he was just about to spill the beans about the "hoax" moon landings............CIA done him in !
  • Balls bigger than King Kong. First big suit on the moon and asked to play golf, hole in one.

    A fair old life lived and by all accounts a wonderfully humble and nice man.

    RIP
  • Fantastic achievement and modest to the end but what a shame he got his soundbite wrong - all for the sake of 'a'.

  • “The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.”


    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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  • Fantastic achievement and modest to the end but what a shame he got his soundbite wrong - all for the sake of 'a'.

    What a quote to come up with though - Shakespear would have been proud of that, but Armstrong was an engineer not a bard.

  • We are stardust.
    Billion year old carbon.
    We are golden..
    Caught in the devil's bargain
    And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.


    All that hope and expectation from being an 8 year old wakened to watch his "giant leap". To be on the edge of a huge leap forward that has never materalised seems so sad.

    Niel was the first of just 12 men to walk on the moon and now it seems there will be no more.
  • RIP Neil - every boy's hero! The moon landings on a neighbours TV are one of my very earliest memories. Who didn't want to be an astronaut?!

  • Niel was the first of just 12 men to walk on the moon and now it seems there will be no more.

    It was a fanatstic achievement and an importnat step in what will eventually be the chain of events that led to us putting people and probably colonies on other planets, but there ain't much to see on the moon so, really, until we need to use it to test life support systems or something there's not much scientific reason to go back.

    With the Mars Rover etc space exploration is still very much alive, it's just technology means we can make the initial visits more cheaply and without endangering human life.

  • Such a major figure of not just the 20thC but modern history as a whole. Disappointed in some of the comments on this thread.
  • edited August 2012
    Has anybody ever had something more impressive to put on their CV? Arguably the most famous human being ever, and one of the few I'd loved to have met.
    RIP sir, never forgotten.
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