RIP Neil Armstrong

[juddy]

I read this morning the Loss of Neil Armstrong.......

What a great man he was........

BBC News - US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies, first man on Moon

Some great old pictures and video from CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/25/us...html?hpt=hp_t1

[shorty943]

Never saw a photo of the man without a huge grin on his face.
Rest in Peace sir.

Live blog: First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[Tombie]

Truly a man with 'The right stuff'

RIP... One of the planets greatest explorers .

[d3syd]

One of the all time most famous individuals who will forever more be known as the first human being to set foot ground that was not of this earth. RIP.

[Ferret]

Part of history gone. Remembered forever. RIP

[Catmatt]

Was a young kid attending school in NQLD when the teacher left us with a 'Back soon - behave yourselves".
We got bored pretty quick and started to muck up...even joined in with the class next door as the teacher was absent from there as well.

Further investigation showed all 4 teachers were absent and had made a bee-line for the staff room and the only TV......

You can guess the rest - Teachers got to see live one of the greatest events mankind had initiated.

We got to see it replayed later that afternoon. I'm still humbled by that momentous occasion and Armstrong's words........
Just would have been nice to witness it as it actually happened

[Davo]

I'm impressed that he never went down the road of trying to squeeze every last buck from his fame - and I don't think he had a Facebook page, either!

A bit like Don Bradman.

[MEANZ06]

I'm impressed that he never went down the road of trying to squeeze every last buck from his fame - and I don't think he had a Facebook page, either!

A bit like Don Bradman.

He was a Humble man.

RIP Mr. Armstrong

[juddy]

For such a great man, I hope they decided against naming a Ammunition ship after him, and make it something more like a frigate or aircraft carrier....

[p38arover]

Those blokes were incredibly brave. There was no chance of rescue. But what a ride!

I'm proud to have, in 1968-69, worked at the Moree satellite communications station that provided the comms from Australia back to the USA for that spaceflight. NASA Special and Critical Coverages where we couldn't do any maintenance which might drop comms were a common occurrence.

This was the station at Moree:



Some more info here: http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apol...from_Moon.html

To have been part of that in even such a small way was, at the time, very special — and it still is.

This envelope (which appeared on eVilBay a few years back) was signed by all of us at the station on the day of the launch (the date looks wrong because the US was a day behind):



I regret missing the visit this year by Buzz Aldrin to Carnarvon, WA, for the opening of the space museum http://www.carnarvonmuseum.org.au/ at the place where I worked in 1970-71 http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/othe...OTC/index.html. My wife was a camera and darkroom operator at the NASA tracking station down the road taking photos of the sun to look for solar flares which would preclude EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity).

I'm at the desk in this pic of Ceduna Earth Station: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glenhsp...2644/lightbox/