RIP Neil Armstrong

Neil Armstrong, first man on the Moon, dead at 82.

Sad day for NASA...That's one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind..

DD, are you implying that we did land on the moon?

Yes.

DonDiego was approximately 4 miles west of the Saturn V carrying Apollo 11 when it lifted off on 16 July 1969. DonDiego can personally attest that something very large took to the skies that day. And he doesn't doubt the Moon landing.

I remember that they landed on the moon not too long after my father died that July. After he died, it seemed like it would never stop raining in New Jersey. I remember watching the landing in my Mom's TV room in West Orange New Jersey. Never forget that day. I just marveled at how they could send pictures from almost 250,000 miles away! And now they're doing it from Mars!

I remember them landing on the moon and it was my

younger sisters 21st birthday, July 20, 1969.


Diane

I was very young, but I remember watching all of this on CBS (because of Walter Cronkite) in July of 1969.

RIP Neil. You were an all-star and I didn't reaize how much danger you and Buzz Aldrin were in until watching various docmentaries in the last decade. I have been to the Smithsonian Space and Air Museum in Washington DC and didn't realize that you were true cowboys at the time all of this took place. The command module was tiny. The lunar module was very light in weight and depended on nothing more than thick gold foil to protect it from the sun's heat.

My Commodore 64 in the early 80's had more computing power than the computers you had in either the command module or the lunar module in your mission in 69 (each were 16 K) . I never knew that you had to break off a pen to use in a toggle switch in the lunar module in order to take off from the moon. I never knew you had less than 20 seconds of fuel left in the lunar module when you landed the lunar module on the moon. I never knew as you were descending to the lunar surface that you had to receive programming code from NASA to reprogram the computer in the LM. There was no safety net and there was nothing on Earth as a safety measure to come and save you if something went wrong. Both you and Buzz carried cyanide capsules if you got stranded on the moon.

I have actually had the honor of meeting Buzz Aldrin and even John Glenn.through the Rose Parade.

Neil, you came close to death twice before Appolo 11. In your Gemini mission your capsule spun helplessly out of control tumbling towards Earth. You had the cool to take chances and correct it.

While you were training for Appolo 11, you were flying in a lunar module training machine wherebye you had to eject just before it crashed to Earth.

NASA clipped your wings after Appolo 11 because you were their most prized possession. You were a professor in Ohio who remained low key in society and never flaunted who you were, even though you were a monumental star.

You will be missed. RIP my friend. You are one of the all time pioneers in the history of this Earth.

As I see various icons from my childhood die from old age, you are up there probably as my number one or number two American of all time.

Well said, Roulette Man...

Somebody at the bar last night told me Major Nelson was the first man on the moon. Was he messing with me?

EllenMonster- you do have a knack for reporting your take on who was first for doing something noteworthy. I look forward to your next contribution.