Club Arnage

Neil Armstrong died today from complications after heart bypass surgery earlier this month. I remember my dad thankfully keeping me up into the early hours to watch that first moon landing, and not only wondering in awe at the technology, but at what it must have felt like, to have gone into such a place alone. RIP to an all-time hero.

Mark

The Yanks had the decency to do it between exams and end of term.  We commandeered the schools only tv and watched the lot.

Modest and shy, and a hell of a test pilot.  And suicidally brave - there was no lifeboat.

They don't make them like that any more

 :'(

A quiet, modest man, who never sought to exploit his fame.  He lived his post NASA life here in Cincinnati, being a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati (several of my friends had him for a prof).  For a man who was a Korean war fighter pilot, post war test pilot, Gemini, and Apollo commander, he was happiest riding his garden tractor around his home in the Indian Hill suburb of Cincy.
His family issued a statement saying next time you look up on a clear night, and see the moon, give Neil a wink.
Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed.
Fax

I understand he flew over 200 types of aircraft, amazing enough in itself.

Compare and contrast his life and general demeanour with the other twerp called Armstrong in the thread below. Says it all really.

And the moon was clear in Buckinghamshire tonight..........

MG Mark

This thread was started a couple of years ago after Neil's passing, recently the American PBS science program Nova, has been running a one hour bio of the NASA legend.  Here's a link below to watch it online for those interested.  Its a terrific one hour tribute.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/first-man-on-moon.html
Fax

Thanks - the man and the event are always of interest - had a quick look and looks good

MG Mark