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A true humble legend if there ever was one.
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Moon landing anniversary
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Yes, meant to say, R.I.P and thanks.
I was too young at the time, but will never forget that clip when they landed.
I was too young at the time, but will never forget that clip when they landed.
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Strange how engineers, scientist etc can work out to the second how to put a machine on land so far away it take 20 minutes for the signal to arrive, yet economist if laid end to end would not reach a conclusion.
Engineers etc the true world heroes but don't get the awards they deserve.
Engineers etc the true world heroes but don't get the awards they deserve.
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Thanks DB, that was a real treat...
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Neil Armstrong, The First Man On The Moon, Dead At 82
Matt Hardigree
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, passed away earlier today. He was 82. The cause was complications from heart surgery three weeks ago.
From his official NASA biography:
Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 5, 1930. He began his NASA career in Ohio.
After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. His first assignment was with the NACA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn) in Cleveland. Over the next 17 years, he was an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., he was a project pilot on many pioneering high speed aircraft, including the well known, 4000-mph X-15. He has flown over 200 different models of aircraft, including jets, rockets, helicopters and gliders.
Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962. He was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission. Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space.
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface.
Matt Hardigree
Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, passed away earlier today. He was 82. The cause was complications from heart surgery three weeks ago.
From his official NASA biography:
Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on August 5, 1930. He began his NASA career in Ohio.
After serving as a naval aviator from 1949 to 1952, Armstrong joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1955. His first assignment was with the NACA Lewis Research Center (now NASA Glenn) in Cleveland. Over the next 17 years, he was an engineer, test pilot, astronaut and administrator for NACA and its successor agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
As a research pilot at NASA's Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., he was a project pilot on many pioneering high speed aircraft, including the well known, 4000-mph X-15. He has flown over 200 different models of aircraft, including jets, rockets, helicopters and gliders.
Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962. He was assigned as command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission. Gemini 8 was launched on March 16, 1966, and Armstrong performed the first successful docking of two vehicles in space.
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the moon and first to step on its surface.
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Yes, l think that was a great interview and insight into someone who will forever be in the history books.
Neil seemed humble in his achievement(s) and a all round nice guy.
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Great post Danny, I was in second year high school in Bunbury, the whole class went across the road into a private house to watch it.
Funny how things change, now the classroom has the latest in media technology, but nobody can add up.LOL
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He is up there with all the other great explorers who ventured into the unknown. The Australian editorial today;
One of the great explorers
THEY were the words that defined one of history's greatest achievements, a moment when the horizons of human endeavour and discovery changed forever: "One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
Yet in his last interview in May, with CPA Australia chief executive Alex Malley, Neil Armstrong spoke modestly of how he had thought of them after he had manoeuvred his landing craft through a treacherous descent on to the moon's surface.
That self-effacing modesty was the mark of the extraordinary man whose death is universally mourned. For as long as history is written, Armstrong will have a major place in it. He will be honoured alongside Christopher Columbus and other explorers. On that day in July, 1969, an awestruck television audience of 600 million, one-fifth of humanity, watched him step on to the moon's Sea of Tranquillity, igniting the passions and imaginations of generations to come, just as Armstrong had been by president John F. Kennedy's Rice University speech in 1961 that laid down the gauntlet for a moon landing.
How different those dreams of interplanetary discovery look now, and it is hardly surprising that even as he eschewed attention, Armstrong spoke out on the issue of human spaceflight, rounding on President Barack Obama over his cancellation of the Constellation plan to return humans to the moon by the early 2020s. Armstrong warned a Senate hearing that if the US failed to pursue the challenge, that would open the door to other countries. In his CPA Australia interview, he said the current US human spaceflight program lacked ambition compared with the big thinking of the 1960s.
In a telling riposte, China has announced plans to put humans on the moon by the early 2020s, taking up the opening left by Washington. Past US glories in manned spacecraft, unfortunately, belong to another era. The big thinking of the 60s on manned spaceflight has been replaced by more modest ambitions, although the epic $2.35 billion Curiosity Mars probe that landed earlier this month is a sign of continuing achievement. Clearly, however, there is little enthusiasm for the glory days of manned space launches when NASA was spending well over 4 per cent of the US government's budget on space and employing 400,000 workers. A return to anything on that scale is ruled out by the parlous state of the American economy.
But as the world's superpower, the US would be wise to use Armstrong's death to recall the excitement and the soaring "we can do anything" ambition that led to the moon landing and ponder the wisdom of allowing China, or any other country, to assume the leadership in human spaceflight.
The US was a different place then. Times are tougher, horizons are lowered. But what we need in every field of human endeavour is more, not less, of the ambition and creativity that drove Armstrong from his schoolboy fascination with flight to become a US navy fighter pilot who flew 78 combat missions in the Korea War then went on to space travel.
A reluctant hero, Armstrong was one of the great men of our times. His achievements changed perceptions of ourselves and knowledge of the universe. In an age of mindless celebrity and self-aggrandisement, he was different. That one giant leap for mankind should continue to inspire us.
One of the great explorers
THEY were the words that defined one of history's greatest achievements, a moment when the horizons of human endeavour and discovery changed forever: "One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
Yet in his last interview in May, with CPA Australia chief executive Alex Malley, Neil Armstrong spoke modestly of how he had thought of them after he had manoeuvred his landing craft through a treacherous descent on to the moon's surface.
That self-effacing modesty was the mark of the extraordinary man whose death is universally mourned. For as long as history is written, Armstrong will have a major place in it. He will be honoured alongside Christopher Columbus and other explorers. On that day in July, 1969, an awestruck television audience of 600 million, one-fifth of humanity, watched him step on to the moon's Sea of Tranquillity, igniting the passions and imaginations of generations to come, just as Armstrong had been by president John F. Kennedy's Rice University speech in 1961 that laid down the gauntlet for a moon landing.
How different those dreams of interplanetary discovery look now, and it is hardly surprising that even as he eschewed attention, Armstrong spoke out on the issue of human spaceflight, rounding on President Barack Obama over his cancellation of the Constellation plan to return humans to the moon by the early 2020s. Armstrong warned a Senate hearing that if the US failed to pursue the challenge, that would open the door to other countries. In his CPA Australia interview, he said the current US human spaceflight program lacked ambition compared with the big thinking of the 1960s.
In a telling riposte, China has announced plans to put humans on the moon by the early 2020s, taking up the opening left by Washington. Past US glories in manned spacecraft, unfortunately, belong to another era. The big thinking of the 60s on manned spaceflight has been replaced by more modest ambitions, although the epic $2.35 billion Curiosity Mars probe that landed earlier this month is a sign of continuing achievement. Clearly, however, there is little enthusiasm for the glory days of manned space launches when NASA was spending well over 4 per cent of the US government's budget on space and employing 400,000 workers. A return to anything on that scale is ruled out by the parlous state of the American economy.
But as the world's superpower, the US would be wise to use Armstrong's death to recall the excitement and the soaring "we can do anything" ambition that led to the moon landing and ponder the wisdom of allowing China, or any other country, to assume the leadership in human spaceflight.
The US was a different place then. Times are tougher, horizons are lowered. But what we need in every field of human endeavour is more, not less, of the ambition and creativity that drove Armstrong from his schoolboy fascination with flight to become a US navy fighter pilot who flew 78 combat missions in the Korea War then went on to space travel.
A reluctant hero, Armstrong was one of the great men of our times. His achievements changed perceptions of ourselves and knowledge of the universe. In an age of mindless celebrity and self-aggrandisement, he was different. That one giant leap for mankind should continue to inspire us.
I was being born while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon.
My father was glued to the television rather than at the hospital with my mother and didn't come to see his firstborn son until after the moonwalk.
I have always felt a connection with this event and was called moon baby/boy by relatives as a young boy.
Rest in Peace Neil Armstrong
cheers
Surly
My father was glued to the television rather than at the hospital with my mother and didn't come to see his firstborn son until after the moonwalk.
I have always felt a connection with this event and was called moon baby/boy by relatives as a young boy.
Rest in Peace Neil Armstrong
cheers
Surly
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Obama pays tribute to Neil Armstrong, the only way he knows how...with a picture of himself.
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All be it a cool pic
, its an election year, what do ya expect??
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, its an election year, what do ya expect??CanOz
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This was on TV last night, thoroughly enjoyed it.
I could see the moon perfectly outside my window this morning, so I gave it a wink, as his family said to do
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From spacecraft Orion, taken recently, a holiday snap of the dark side of the moon, a crescent Earth and (I presume) a heavily filtered Sun
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... and 50 years since the last humans on the moon.
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the final mission of the NASA Apollo program, the most recent time humans have set foot on the moon or traveled beyond low earth orbit.
Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the final mission of the NASA Apollo program, the most recent time humans have set foot on the moon or traveled beyond low earth orbit.
Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above
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It seems much harder to get back there, despite advances in aerospace and computing technology, must be a traffic and space junk issue. ?
Didn't they stick a retroreflector or something up there that you can bounce lasers off?
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My guess is a hypnosis disk. ?
I wonder if the next first 'person' on the moon's first words are, "someone told me there was a flucking moon mobile up here". ?
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I think they should send Donald Trump there so he can establish the first golf course on the moon.
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US private company.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched on January 15 and completed its 45-day Earth to Moon transit before softly touching down on the Moon on March 2. Firefly is now the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful Moon landing! As Blue Ghost performs 14 days of surface operations, follow along with Firefly’s mission updates along the way.
fireflyspace.com
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky, launched on January 15 and completed its 45-day Earth to Moon transit before softly touching down on the Moon on March 2. Firefly is now the first commercial company in history to achieve a fully successful Moon landing! As Blue Ghost performs 14 days of surface operations, follow along with Firefly’s mission updates along the way.
Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Firefly Aerospace
Firefly’s first mission to the Moon will deliver 10 NASA CLPS payloads to Mare Crisium with a target landing date of March 2, 2025.
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