RIP Neil Armstrong

[Luke]

Could you imagine being a ten year old boy in 1940, looking up at the moon and thinking "One day, I'm walking on that giant rock"? Imagine being 20, in 1950, and have already successfully flown around 200 test flights?

What Neil did during his span on Earth (and beyond) is nothing short of mind boggling. He was too low key to request it, but a burial in space would be fitting.

I think unfortunately we may lose the great Chuck Yeager sometime soon as well. Met him at Oshkosh when I was a kid, still remember how nice he was. Later in life I met Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan and was able to get the to autograph my copy of their book Voyager. Feel very lucky to have met some of the greats. I can barely land a Cessna 172 and these guys can do things with aeronautics that are simply insane.

[Key-Glyph]

I wish I'd been alive to see the landing. I can't even imagine what that was like. I often think about how I was born into a world where humans had already graced the surface of the Moon, and how I'll never get to feel what people must have felt as they actually lived through that experience.

We've got Neil's biography on display at my library -- we always put books out for a recently passed author, but our library is also named after an (different) astronaut, so we all feel a little extra connected to Armstrong and are giving him some well-deserved fanfare as well.

We lost Sally Ride recently, too.

[Pulsar_t]

The mentality was different then. I imagine if an extraterrestrial race were to land on our planet, I'd throw up my hands and say "I hope those xenos don't eat us or probe us at least!"

[CRTGAMER]

I wish I'd been alive to see the landing. I can't even imagine what that was like. I often think about how I was born into a world where humans had already graced the surface of the Moon, and how I'll never get to feel what people must have felt as they actually lived through that experience.

We've got Neil's biography on display at my library -- we always put books out for a recently passed author, but our library is also named after an (different) astronaut, so we all feel a little extra connected to Armstrong and are giving him some well-deserved fanfare as well.

We lost Sally Ride recently, too.

I saw the Moon Landing while in school. The pictures were fuzzy but really amazing, especially when in an entire room full of people watching in wonder.

A great DVD to get a feel what it was like, When We Left Earth The NASA Missions.

[Ack]

I was greatly upset by this, especially having grown up in Huntsville, Alabama. I've been to the Space and Rocket Center more times than I can count. My middle school's biggest rival in sports were the kids from Challenger Middle School. If I had stayed there, I would likely have ended up at Virgil Ivan Grissom High School. I remember going to friends' houses and watching the footage of rocket engine tests they had been doing out on Redstone Arsenal the day before. About half of my parents' friends were either NASA employees or in some way worked on propulsion systems. Hell, my Dad was an aerospace engineer for a corporation in the area, though his work was more centered on missile defense.

It's my opinion that walking on the moon is the greatest achievement in the history of humanity. As much respect and love as I have for culture, art, philosophy, and all the realms of science and mathematics, none of it compares to knowing that not only did man look up and reach for the stars, we made it to them and came back to tell the tale.

Now it's time to go back up there.

[dsheinem]

I was greatly upset by this, especially having grown up in Huntsville, Alabama. I've been to the Space and Rocket Center more times than I can count. My middle school's biggest rival in sports were the kids from Challenger Middle School. If I had stayed there, I would likely have ended up at Virgil Ivan Grissom High School. I remember going to friends' houses and watching the footage of rocket engine tests they had been doing out on Redstone Arsenal the day before. About half of my parents' friends were either NASA employees or in some way worked on propulsion systems. Hell, my Dad was an aerospace engineer for a corporation in the area, though his work was more centered on missile defense.

It's my opinion that walking on the moon is the greatest achievement in the history of humanity. As much respect and love as I have for culture, art, philosophy, and all the realms of science and mathematics, none of it compares to knowing that not only did man look up and reach for the stars, we made it to them and came back to tell the tale.

Now it's time to go back up there.

fuckin' a right

[Key-Glyph]

A great DVD to get a feel what it was like, When We Left Earth The NASA Missions.

I've seen this, actually! Thanks for thinking of me and making the recommendation. Have you seen the series From the Earth to the Moon?

[CRTGAMER]

A great DVD to get a feel what it was like, When We Left Earth The NASA Missions.

I've seen this, actually! Thanks for thinking of me and making the recommendation. Have you seen the series From the Earth to the Moon?

Also well done! Great acted series put together by Tom Hanks. I loved the "Spider" episode where the engineers kicked around making the Lunar LEM Lander work. Still amazed that the Neil flew that vehicle while standing up.

[Pulsar_t]