TylerHastings Posted August 25, 2012 Posted August 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/science/space/neil-armstrong-dies-first-man-on-moon.html?_r=1 May he rest in peace...He got to do what a lot of us dreamed about not once but twice...he has taken a walk through the stars. 1
Chief1C Posted August 25, 2012 Posted August 25, 2012 (edited) If you noticed, MSNBC was reporting for nearly two hours that his name was Neil Young. I don't get too into calling actors "famous", I consider a person famous if they made a cultural impact on more than one generation of Americans. That said, a lot of famous people have been passing away lately. Mr. Armstrong definetly made a cultural impact on the globe. Edited August 25, 2012 by 1 C 1
BushyFromOz Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 Wow. As a side not, anyone with the surname armstrong seems to be copping it this week
ERDoc Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 Fair winds and following seas, Lieutenant Armstrong. "Pilots take no special joy in walking, pilots like flying." Neil Armstrong 1
Lone Star Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 Fair winds and following seas, Lieutenant Armstrong. "Pilots take no special joy in walking, pilots like flying." Neil Armstrong As a kid, I dreamed of going where Neil Armstrong and the others had gone. Unfortunately, that was a dream that went unrealized. I was saddened by the news of his passing. Unfortunately, being where I am in this life, I'm seeing a lot of my heroes (on and off television) are passing away; unlike the generation of kids today who are watching their idols killing each other off...... "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong 1
DFIB Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 Lt. Armstrong, not only lives in the history books but in our hearts. Farewell to a Great American. 1
Richard B the EMT Posted August 26, 2012 Posted August 26, 2012 High Flight Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . . Up, up the long, delirious burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Where never lark, or ever eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. — John Gillespie Magee, Jr Mission Secured, Neal Armstrong. Well done!
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