"Houston: Tranquility Base here,"
Polkersince85
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... "The Eagle has landed."
RIP Neil Armstrong
The day the world shut down to watch you land on the moon. Thanks for you bravery.
RIP Neil Armstrong
The day the world shut down to watch you land on the moon. Thanks for you bravery.
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A truly humble American hero. His family said when you look at the moon give Neil a wink.Home Theater
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Rest in Peace Mr. Armstrong. 'Brave' doesn't seem appropriate for what you, and the rest of the space explorers did and have done.
It's way beyond that
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A very sad day. He was a great man. R I P.
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A truly great American Hero, who sought not glory for himself, but for our nation and the world. His selfless devotion to duty and his family brought honor and dignity to a life all Americans can and should be proud of. In a very real sense, Neil Armstrong was(and always will be) America's Superman. Hearing him speak on the campus of Purdue University in the fall of 2007 and being in the presense of 27 other Purdue Alum that had also walked on the moon, flown Apollo-Soyuz, the Space Shuttle, and the International Space Station was as humbling an experience as I can remember.
Thank You Neil Armstrong for your service to the nation and for giving us a new reason to look to the stars at night. May you rest in peace, and thanks to all that worked to make Apollo happen, for you are heroes all.The Gear... Carver "Statement" Mono-blocks, Mcintosh C2300 Arcam AVR20, Oppo UDP-203 4K Blu-ray player, Sony XBR70x850B 4k, Polk Audio Legend L800 with height modules, L400 Center Channel Polk audio AB800 "in-wall" surrounds. Marantz MM7025 stereo amp. Simaudio Moon 680d DSD
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35 people have viewed this thread, and only 4 comments... wow, just wow.
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“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”— Thomas Jefferson -
Well, your comment in post 5 is better than anything I could say.
I was in boot camp when they landed, and they let us stay up and watch it on TV. It was quite an emotional moment. RIP.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
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"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"
I can still hear his voice saying that.....RIPPolitical Correctness'.........defined
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What a truly amazing feat. I remember at the time I could hardly wrap my mind around what they accomplished - Armstrong, NASA, the whole team.
NASA always seemed so safety conscious that the missions didn't seem that dangerous when I was a little kid. And then we had the fire on the launch pad in 1967 in which Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed.
I never looked at space missions the same way again.
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A true pioneer with balls of steel! RIP Neil!
It's amazing when watching this video, how the world was seemingly united together as one. Neil's "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" could not have been any more perfect.
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Remember sitting in front of a 19" B/W TV, watching this ....watching ..... nobody talking ..... everyone sitting in awe.
If this had happened in the middle of the school day, there would have been no question about staying home. Or my Dad calling off at work (he worked at McDonnel-Douglas). To experience that live by merely watching was .... beyond words.
Nice work, Neil and NASA. Thanks for the memories.
And to think, it was done with slide rules. Whew.Sal Palooza -
mrbigbluelight wrote: »Remember sitting in front of a 19" B/W TV, watching this ....watching ..... nobody talking ..... everyone sitting in awe
You and 600 million (1/3) of the world's population. I've got the Time-Life "To The Moon" LP record set. Later tonight I may experience the landing again through the SDAs.>
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mrbigbluelight wrote: »Remember sitting in front of a 19" B/W TV, watching this ....watching ..... nobody talking ..... everyone sitting in awe.
If this had happened in the middle of the school day, there would have been no question about staying home. Or my Dad calling off at work (he worked at McDonnel-Douglas). To experience that live by merely watching was .... beyond words.
Nice work, Neil and NASA. Thanks for the memories.
And to think, it was done with slide rules. Whew.
Yup. I remember sitting in E-Core up at Great Lakes, when the instructor had us pull out our pocket calculators, and proclaimed: "There's more technology in your hands, then was used in landing on the moon!":eek:I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE! -
One of the Great moments in our history and the history of the world. I remember it well, huddling around the neighbors larger console TV, two or three entire families in the room. Walter Cronkite on the coverage. Then the landing and the words (see Jesse above). Chills! Everyone knew this was, indeed a moment for all Mankind! We had been primed for this since the JFK announcement, most of us hitting the Math and Sciences in our J.H.S. and H.S. classes. Everyone was thinking space race!
And then the first earth man, Neil A., put that boot on the surface of the moon and everyone breathed a little easier, everyone was a little happier, and everyone became a little more aware that he was a member of a very small but beautiful planet that could now be seen from the moon by one of us.
Oh, and yes, as a side note. Kennedy was right, we did put a man on the moon before the end of the decade, and he was an American.
RIP, Neil!
(John, great stuff above!)
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"The Soviets established an impressive number of firsts: first to place a satellite in orbit, first to send a probe to the moon, first to place a human in space, first to orbit two manned craft simultaneously, first to have a human exit his craft in space. But it would be the Americans who would accomplish the seemingly impossible, sending men to the moon and returning them safely to earth."
Excerpted from the introduction to the book "Moon Shot" by Alan Shepard & Deke Slayton. I started the book two days ago. The introduction is by Neal Armstrong.
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RIP Neil. While I was not born yet it was astronauts like Neil that got me interested in space and astronomy.
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RIP Neil
I live minutes away from NASA Houston
Although I was only born the year slightly before the landing, I can remember the the excitement of my youth that the greatest feats were trips to space. My wife's boss is the personal liaison for Gene Cernon "The Last Man on the Moon" and he is still the biggest gov't advocate keeping NASA alive.
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