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Neil Armstrong

Henry Irving
Henry Irving Posts: 85,227
edited August 2012 in Not Sports Related
Has died.

The space race is over

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    Not a good week for the Armstrong family.

    RIP
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    Rip a true modern hero god bless
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    i heard he was just about to spill the beans about the "hoax" moon landings............CIA done him in !
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    RIP
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,037
    RIP
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227
    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=l_Yubitl5nk&gl=GB
  • red_murph
    red_murph Posts: 2,460
    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
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,467
    R.I.P
  • legaladdick
    legaladdick Posts: 1,808
    Fantastic achievement and modest to the end but what a shame he got his soundbite wrong - all for the sake of 'a'.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227

    “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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  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    legaladdick said:

    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.

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,227
    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.
  • InCurbsWeTrusted
    InCurbsWeTrusted Posts: 300
    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?!
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,168
    Henry Irving said:


    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.

  • RobbieT
    RobbieT Posts: 51
    Such a major figure of not just the 20thC but modern history as a whole. Disappointed in some of the comments on this thread.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,794
    RIP
  • queensland_addick
    queensland_addick Posts: 7,547
    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.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    RIP

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