[Drlee]

A class act. Good man. Great role model. By the mercy of God, rest in peace Neil Armstrong.

[Russkie]

Russia should send a robot to the moon to destroy all the artifacts.

[unbalanced zealot]

Fuck.

The man truly was a class act, never sought any fame or fortune based on his monumental achievements.

Lots of good comments in this thread so far.

Neil Armstrong was cooler than cool.

[Igor Antunov]

He sort of fell off the radar way back in the 70's. I don't think kids these days know who he is. But everyone knows buzz.

[GandalfTheGrey]

Buzz was shameless in cashing in on his product placement opportunities. Neil I think did one or two car commercials. Also Buzz has that sort of personality where showmanship comes naturally to him - so he does all the public events and never misses a media opportunity. You hear even less about the third guy though...

[Political Interest]

There are few men of his caliber today. A courageous pioneer.

May he rest in peace (RIP).

[Section Leader]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/science/space/neil-armstrong-dies-first-man-on-moon.html



Shame he never witnessed first man on Mars.

Shame he never witnessed the first man on the moon either.

[Zagadka]

/me bitchslaps SL with http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

[Otebo]

I never realised that he was still going until he died. Buzz Aldrin has been stealing all the glory for years.

[Section Leader]

/me bitchslaps SL with http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

Haha.

Someone was going to post it eventually, just thought I'd get in early.

[Decky]

You should be proud Section Leader it was your mate that put him up there after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

[Far-Right Sage]

Rather shocking and it feels a bit like the end of an era closing in. Not quite sure what to say beyond the fact that we felt as if the heavens were in reach that night. It's something truly difficult to explain to young people now that everything from car-phones to the blackberry is within a fingertip's reach. That it night it felt more akin to folk magic than the triumph of science, and that was alright.

Unlike Buzz Aldrin who asked for $150 when my four-year-old Godson and his friends asked for his signature on their NASA caps.

That's absolutely disgraceful.

[Political Interest]

Rather shocking and it feels a bit like the end of an era closing in. Not quite sure what to say beyond the fact that we felt as if the heavens were in reach that night. It's something truly difficult to explain to young people now that everything from car-phones to the blackberry is within a fingertip's reach. That it night it felt more akin to folk magic than the triumph of science, and that was alright.

Often I wonder what it was like to live in that era before this technophile age where everything is computerised. It must have been a revolutionary event in 1969.

[joeylyrics]

He took his manipulating propaganda along with his government cover-up about his "Made Up" moon walk to the grave with him.
Neil Armstrong...
Farewell to the man who had been pulling your leg for far too long.

[Donna]

There are videos on the internet of conspiracy theorists harassing former astronauts

[The Immortal Goon]

Soon there will be nobody alive who has walked on the moon.

It says something of our goals and ambition. It's really quite pathetic.

[Happyhippo]

Fuck.

The man truly was a class act, never sought any fame or fortune based on his monumental achievements.

Well said. The man was completely awesome.

[Gletkin]

It says something of our goals and ambition

We still have plenty of that.
It's our competence that's in question.
I suppose we could still continue with space exploration...if we gutted just about everything else.
At least in the US, the future of space travel is leaning toward private tourism and commercial flights.

[The Immortal Goon]

NASA gets less than half a percent of the federal budget.

To tripple that, we wouldn't need to gut all that much.

The youngest living person to walk on the moon is Charles Duke, and he's 76. We should have at least been back there before now. The United States' Great Wall, it's Caesar, the thing it will be remembered for for eons is walking on the moon. To have taken that, called it good enough, and then decided the bragging point sixty years ago was good enough and now it's time to concentrate on retirement and slowly smother the hope and promise it brought in favor of golf courses and a vague assumption some rich guy or the Chinese or Russians can lead humanity to the stars is...depressing.

[Chill]

Shame he never witnessed the first man on the moon either.

This kind of conspiracies is bullshit. Those people are too bored and show no respect to the heroes. I also remember people saying China faked the space walk.