Topic: One small step - Neil Armstrong
Just read on the BBC that Neil Armstrong has died. As one of the 500 million that were tuned in that day..........those scratchy black and white pictures conveyed a true sense of awe to an 11 year old.
Since that day I never seem to have heard much about him and his obituary goes some way to explaining why. He was an extremely modest scientist and unwilling to participate in the media circus of the day. Imagine what it would be like today!
Seems inconceivable that they could have achieved it using computers with a 1000th of the processing power that the laptop I am writing this post on has. Somehow though it just makes it seems to make that achievement all the more magnificent.
In that era America and Russia made us believe we, as a race, could do anything. I don't know if we have really made the best of that legacy, but pioneers like Neil Armstrong can't take any blame for that.
Rest in peace a truly modest human hero.