Neil Armstrong just passed away

Don't understand hype about him.. anyone with proper training could have done that job and have gone to the moon.. he is just another person, sad he died but he had a great accomplishment!
 
US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098#

US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, has died aged 82.

A statement from his family says he died from complications from heart surgery he had earlier this month.

He set foot on the Moon on 20 July 1969, famously describing the event as "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

US President Barack Obama said Amstrong was "among the greatest of American heroes - not just of his time, but of all time".

Last November he received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest US civilian award.

He was the commander of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. More than 500 million TV viewers around the world watched its touchdown on the lunar surface.

Armstrong and fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the moon, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.

"The sights were simply magnificent, beyond any visual experience that I had ever been exposed to," Armstrong once said.

'Reluctant hero'

Mr Aldrin told the BBC's Newshour programme: "It's very sad indeed that we're not able to be together as a crew on the 50th anniversary of the mission… [I will remember him] as a very capable commander."

Apollo 11 was Armstrong's last space mission. In 1971, he left the US space agency Nasa to teach aerospace engineering.

Born in 1930 and raised in Ohio, Armstrong took his first flight aged six with his father and formed a lifelong passion for flying.

He flew Navy fighter jets during the Korean War in the 1950s, and joined the US space programme in 1962.

Correspondents say Armstrong remained modest and never allowed himself to be caught up in the glamour of space exploration.

"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer," he said in February 2000, in a rare public appearance.

In a statement, his family praised him as a "reluctant American hero" who had "served his nation proudly, as a navy fighter pilot, test pilot, and astronaut".

The statement did not say where Armstrong died.

He had surgery to relieve four blocked coronary arteries on 7 August.
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I don't think he should be held in any higher regard than the many others who were involved in the space program, including the scientists and engineers that made it all possible.
 
May he rest in peace, I don't believe he landed on the moon though. I believe the whole landing on the moon event was shot in a Hollywood studio so that the Soviets will be defeated during the cold war.
 
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Sly21C said:
May he rest in peace, I don't believe he landed on the moon though. I believe the whole landing of the moon event was shot in a Hollywood studio so that the Soviets will be defeated during the cold war.
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marine1 said:
For once I actually agree with you
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Sly21C said:
May he rest in peace, I don't believe he landed on the moon though. I believe the whole landing of the moon event was shot in a Hollywood studio so that the Soviets will be defeated during the cold war.
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marine1 said:
For once I actually agree with you
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Yeah, and the Russians and Chinese who are such great friends with the USA has decided to play along and not say anything for 43 years ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 
marine1 said:
For once I actually agree with you
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This exactly. And it grates me to think that someone could be praised so much for something they didn't even do. Unbelievable.

I genuinely believe that the Moon landing was a hoax.

Anyway RIP.
 
captainEO said:
This exactly. And it grates me to think that someone could be praised so much for something they didn't even do. Unbelievable.

I genuinely believe that the Moon landing was a hoax.

Anyway RIP.
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/facepalm

*sends you all over to nogards corner*
 
captainEO said:
This exactly. And it grates me to think that someone could be praised so much for something they didn't even do. Unbelievable.

I genuinely believe that the Moon landing was a hoax.

Anyway RIP.
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OrbitalDawn said:
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captainEO said:
This exactly. And it grates me to think that someone could be praised so much for something they didn't even do. Unbelievable.

I genuinely believe that the Moon landing was a hoax.

Anyway RIP.
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Look all I am saying is I do not believe it happened at the time they said it did.
Have we been to the moon? Probably.
Did it happen then? I Do not believe it
 
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