Guest Rabs Vista Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Uber legend Neil Armstrong died. Seems surprisingly little media noise about it. RIP Mr Armstrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT ED Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 You must be looking in the wrong place because its all over the news .I do clearly remember sitting around the tv at school age 6 watching Mr Armstrongs first step. R.I.P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rabs Vista Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 You must be looking in the wrong place because its all over the news .I do clearly remember sitting around the tv at school age 6 watching Mr Armstrongs first step. R.I.P I stand corrected! It must have been incredible to watch at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Yes a timely tribute...a modest hero...RIP... I seem to remember a certain David Jones had a record out at the same time which caught the public imagination to a 'T' V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 I watched in awe as he stepped down on to the surface of the moon. For centuries, man looked at the moon in the sky. In the magic summer of 1969, Armstrong, and Aldrin turned the page in the history of man kind. RIP Neil Armstrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT ED Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Wouldn,t it be wonderful to see man back on the moon in the near future, can you imagine the incredible footage with all of todays tecnology hd,3d.The whole mission could be followed from launch to landing and back in real time, Ive always wondered if they would still have to use the old style splash down? The whole world would be glued to there Tvs again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaysEpiphone Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 First man on the moon... RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Wouldn,t it be wonderful to see man back on the moon in the near future, can you imagine the incredible footage with all of todays tecnology hd,3d.The whole mission could be followed from launch to landing and back in real time, Ive always wondered if they would still have to use the old style splash down? The whole world would be glued to there Tvs again. I wish it would happen also. We need to get man's spirit of exploration back again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Mention has been made of Neil's polite but disappointed reaction to the cancellation of the moon etc space programme... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pippy Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 He is one of that relatively small number of people who has been given his rightful place in history books the whole world over. I, too, watched the TV mesmerised as he stepped out on to the surface of the moon. RIP, Mr Armstrong. P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Mention has been made of Neil's polite but disappointed reaction to the cancellation of the moon etc space programme... V Two years ago, Mr. Armstrong gave a deposition to The Congress about the NASA cutbacks. This was an enormous step in the very private life of one of the most respected of anyone in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Thank you for your service and sacrifice. You were a hero to countless boys across not only this nation, but the entire world. I hope your courageous contribution to the exploration of space helps to continue to push us deeper and deeper into our solar system and beyond. God speed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEUEMvUzrDE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flight959 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 Well said Cali man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 I couldn't help thinking of 'The Clangers'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6CoIwcJ-E I wonder if he met one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 My brother got to meet him. Neil was a very humble man. When my brother asked for his autographed he simply said "I was just doing my job." I got to spend the day with Buzz Aldrin once, who did give me his autograph. He's quite the opposite of Neil, and some think he's very arrogant. But he was very nice to me. I never did ask him about Neil though. Anyhow, this is a sad day indeed. What is sadder is that he died knowing that our entire human space program is in limbo. I can tell you that if we are given marching orders to get to Mars before the end of the decade we could do it. I can also tell you doing that would inspire more kids to go into engineering than our current education system. That's something Neil knew all too well and it was about the only thing he was outspoken about. But it's a different world today, politically (I'll stopped here before I get banned). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Stating the obvious...of course... It is very moving to hear B Obama's tribute to Neil... Putting into perspective the general loud-mouth celebrity ethos which distracts the bored populace from 'those who do the work' And make permanent contributions to adventure, knowledge, pioneering spirit, imagination, can-do philosophy.... Role models like this are extremely rare... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiz Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Part of a statement I read from his family: "Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 We lost Michael Jackson in 2009.....now there are NO original Moon Walkers left! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 We lost Michael Jackson in 2009.....now there are NO original Moon Walkers left! that's actually quite funny!! RIP Neil.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveinspain Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 I too am proud to say I saw it on TV when I was a child... RIP to a great man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 As to what Rocketman wrote... And... I never met the moonwalk guys, but... I did talk with an astronaut or two. Ages ago I also did get to talk one-on-one with von Braun. Not to take anything at all from the astronauts or JFK, nor to get things into partisan sorts of politics, but... I think nowadays especially people don't realize the impact that von Braun had not just as a "scientist," but more as a leader and person who could sway others. I'm convinced that without him, and perhaps also his quiet second in command Bob Seamans, America's space program would have been far more military and less "exploration" directed. Von Braun was a visionary who, I think, really wanted rockets to do what mankind had dreamed of since they realized the moon was another "planet" circling our own. At least, that's pretty much how he had me seeing his perspective back then. And I was then, as now, more than a bit cynical when planning an interview with a "big name." I don't think it's politics per se that has put our world's space programs into "local" stuff like ICBMs and various satellites and an occasional robot traveling elsewhere. I think it's the lack of an exploring spirit regardless of danger; and a willingness to commit to whatever it would take from the basic science (that could fail, making the scientists look "stupid") to actually hopping into a "space ship." Yeah, I'm cynical here. I just think that as a group, us folks in "developed" nations are so involved in the mundane of daily "politics" at home and work, and video games and movies that have no point but adrenalin rushes, as well as "universal" individual "comfort," that "we" are allowing humanity into the dangerous position of species entropy. I'd like to be able to blame this or that American political party - and if I were Russian, this or that leadership cabal, and if Chinese or Japanese... yada yada. Unfortunately I see it as the malaise of comfort and focus on maintaining just that, at the expense of looking beyond the horizon. Or, should I suggest as we are drawn into the black hole of desire only for universal comfort, we can't see beyond the event horizon and at that point, it does no good to think of the future regardless, because there ain't any. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.R.M.30! Posted August 27, 2012 Share Posted August 27, 2012 Well they closed the book on NASA and that's one fewer astronauts left to tell stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Eloquent words from milod I agree the world is painfully re-orientating itself as we speak... A certain % of the developed world has got complacent/lazy/greedy/bored with the results of earlier pioneers Linking in with the economic mismanagement...we are in a limbo age of endless re-hash(low risk) music, art, movies etc All muddied by the 'infinite' information instant access internet In a word...we have infinite, powerful access to 'we know not what :blink:' Pioneers are a rare breed, often on the edge of sanity or whatever... Exciting times... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I agree with everything you said Milo. My technical grandfather (my Ph.D.'s advisor's advisor) interned under von Braun and Seamans, and he says exactly what you said. We need to get that vision back somehow. I've given several talks about space exploration to young kids. Most still say they want to be astronauts when they grow up. What do we tell them now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Well said Milod, IMO when we killed the Apollo mission space exploration lost it's pizzazz. We should have built a base of operations on the moon and used it to build a deep space exploration complex there. We were side tracked by the SSI which just doesn't capture the imagination as the moon does. I have met a few men who were involved in the space program, I did met was Richard Scobee rest his soul. They are all exceptional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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