One small step - Neil Armstrong

Beautiful words Mike, thanks. A true hero of our times, a man who gave us one of those JFK moments, where everyone remembers where they watched the lunar landing. I was in a crammed bar on a small island off the Croatian coast (Yugoslavia then) together with lots of tourists, as well as locals. Everyone was thrilled.

RIP Neil

RIP Neil -
Some great pics here of the Apollo 11 mission
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 … ml#photo24

http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/s … 375528.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9cpx … o1_500.jpg

Certainly the man of my generation. One of history's greats. A sad loss to the world.

The apparent calm with which he approached that harrowing first lunar landing is forever etched in my memory.

He was part of the greatest spectacle of our lifetimes, yet he chose never to live in that spotlight.  And shied away from even the edges of it.  He never sold himself or his legacy out.  And that made him even more spectacular, IMO.

So long, Neil...you were so much more than a self-professed "white-sock, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer."

Nostalgia with the television at school, Curby!!!  We had to go to our auditorium (nothing fancy in those days-wood seats, no sound system at all, nominal stage lighting, etc) and watch, not a BIG flat screen tv (those flat screens, not expected to be big, just available, were always just 10 years away), but a mobile cart mounted black & white tv with analog signal pickup via an antenna (can you imagine that?! ). 

Not in school summer of '69, July 20, so was at Grandma's house (where watching television was so rare we wondered why they had it even) and Dad to this day is confused where he was, let alone everyone else, !

Nothing to write, so I let him go in peace.

I always thought of Neil Armstrong listening to The Police's Walking On The Moon...and imagined that music playing in his head, and being how he felt.

Walk ON Role & Explore the Faith,
Rocket

"He still doesn't charge for mistakes! "
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"Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"
“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”

they were all national heros back in that day, Neil will be remembered fondly. I was on vacation that summer with parents, on the beach at Daytona when that rocket came up over the horizon and it was a spectacular scene knowing they were going to the moon. Several days later I watched the landing at my aunt's house coming home, quite surreal as I recall. RIP Neil.

Oh yes Rocket....the novelty of television in school was right up with secretly listening to the World Series on my transistor radio.  In the summer of '69, when Neil was making history, Me and a good buddy were vagabonding the Northern Virginia area of Alexandria/DC/Delaware and staying with various friends.  The race riots had happened across the country earlier that year and I remember there was a curfew in my town when we took a 24 hour bus ride to the east coast.  The event was a long time ago and my memory's a bit hazy, but the night he walked on the moon I was laying on a car hood (and trying to get lucky with a college girl....not!) gazing at the moon and wondering how incredible it would be to be Neil and Buzz.

There are some monumental historic moments that took place during my childhood, whereby I can remember every detail, this is one of them! I'd like to read up more on Armstrong in his life after walking on the moon; he was so modest and it seems he was rarely heard from.  RIP Neil Armstrong

On a funny note, my local paper reported yesterday that when the news was first released on Huffington Post, there was a mistake. It was reported that Astronaut Neil Young had died!!!

Also, I was clicking around somewhere and read a tweet about how sad it was that two moonwalkers had passed recently, including Michael Jackson along with Neil Armstrong.