God Speed, Neil.

Neil Armstrong Passes at 82

Sad day, ripe old age.

American hero and role model for lots of kids, he sure leaves a legacy. RIP

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I remember sitting up pratically all night watching the crappiest television feed ever and not giving a damn about it...it was history before the Nation's/World's eyes. 8 people (S-Father, Mom, the sibs and me) barely breathing as we tried to make out Neil's figure in the B/W shadows and listening to "Uncle Walt" trying to do an astronomical-play-by-play of that historic moment...a human being stepping onto another terestrial body. And, beating the commies to the moon...What an American Story!

(Yes...I hated them then and I detest the ba5tard5 now. What a surprise.)

R.I.P. Neil.

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At the time, we all thought the technology was amazing. But, as you said, the picture was a little grainy--or the grain had a little picture to it. Still, it was a tremendous achievement by the whole team, with pretty much all the country behind it. Will we ever see that unity again?

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I was not around for Apollo 11 but I do remember the last ones. My brother and Dad went to see Apollo 17 launch. I was still to young.

I think the term hero gets bandied about quite a bit these days but anyone who can strap his butt to a Saturn V which was not all that well sorted, travel a quarter million miles, in a capsule which has less computing power than a cell phone, using trajectories calculated by slide rules qualifies as a hero in my book.

Have a safe flight Mr. Armstrong. We will leave a light on for you.

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Safe flight indeed! RIP, Neil.

It was day time over here.
we were given the day off school to go home & watch it.
Sounds like the signal deteriorated getting from here to your side of the pond. Wasnt too bad here.
He was a great man. The true American hero !!
RIP

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I was highly interested in the space program as a child. I wrote a 20 page biography on Armstrong in the 7th grade. He visited our school during my 8th grade year, and my teacher had him sign my essay and gave it back to me. I was also able to meet him at that time...he was one of my greatest heroes at that time, and even connected me with John Glen and a number of astronauts in the space shuttle program.

I ran into him a number of years later, about 10 years ago, when I was dining in Cincinnati at a Skyline Chili...I spoke with him for about 15 minutes then, and nobody else around us recognized him. He seemed to like it that way.

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Good that he was able to enjoy life as a "normal" person - but also a sad commentary on our society and it's priorities - that no one would recognize the first human being in our history to set foot upon another planet.

I wonder how many of the astronauts from that era are still with us - from the original Mercury Seven thru Apollo 17 - and if they would pass equally unnoticed in public.

At that, millions of people every day, and for many years to come, will be directly touched by another of Mr. Armstrong's accomplishments - he was one of the primary advocates, that helped push NASA and the aviation industry, to develop electronic fly-by-wire flight control systems.

Sad that we're starting to lose more and more of the people from that remarkable era in our history. And for me, the passing of a touchstone with my grandparents - particularly my paternal grandmother - born in 1892, when the fastest vehicle in the world was a coal-fired steam locomotive, electricity was still unheard of outside of major cities, and many people still doubted that heavier-than-air powered aircraft would ever work - and lived to watch men set foot upon the moon. It always fascinated me that one could live to see that much change in a single lifetime.

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Neil was asked in a 2005 interview with 60 minutes about the moon landing and how the footprints he left would be their for thousands of years ,his reply was "I hope someone cleans those up soon",explaining a wish for us to set a new mission for exploration on the moon.You dont hear people talk like that way any more ,just those who came from the greatest generation.