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R.I.P. man on the moon! Neil Armstrong dies...
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Well, I guess the Eagle has made its final landing. RIP Neil Armstrong...First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82: NBC
Reuters – 11 mins ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. astronaut, Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at the age of 82, U.S. media reported on Saturday.
Armstrong underwent a heart-bypass surgery earlier this month, just two days after his birthday on August 5, to relieve blocked coronary arteries.
As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. As he stepped on the moon's dusty surface, Armstrong said: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
The Apollo 11 moon mission turned out to be Armstrong's last space flight. The following year he was appointed to a desk job, being named NASA's deputy associate administrator for aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology.
He left NASA a year later to become a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
The former astronaut lived in the Cincinnati area with his wife, Carol.
(Reporting by Sandra Maler; Editing by Philip Barbara)
Today, you make another "small step", and the first man on the Moon will meet the guy who created the Moon.
Now you can explore the rest of space without worrying about that silly suit.
Rest in Space, Mr. Armstrong
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RIS Neil.
Wow.
The last time we went to the moon they were young men.
But it was years in between launches to the new world back in the 1400's so I suppose big enterprises take long term thinking.
Neil was a great Representative for the first one....Buzz would have just jumped off the Lander and yelled "First!"
Can't Control your Future. Can't Control your Friends. The women start to hike their skirts up. I didn't have a clue. That is when I kinda learned how to smile a lot. One Two Three Fouir fun ter thehr fuur.
As a small child my mom deposited me in front of the television for all the moon landings. They inspired a nation.
I recently visited the space museum in Huntsville, my step mother's father came to America at the close of WWII and worked with Werner Von Braun. I saw his picture in the museum and saw that she lives a couple of blocks from where Von Braun lived. There are several of her neighbors who, like her father, were former Nazi scientists. They are passing away pretty frequently these days.
Seeing those spacecraft gave me a tremendous new respect for these men, they had serious courage to ride in those cramped, relatively primitive spacecraft, not knowing for sure if they would return. I like to think I'm pretty brave but I don't think I could have done it. The museum is amazing, if any of you are ever in the area you must visit it.
"Don't want 'em to get you goat, don't show 'em where it's hid." - David Lee Roth
One sad day for mankind...
RIP Mr. Armstrong.
Originally posted by perilouspete
fryingdutchman you pretty much own everyone.....sick comebacks, well put. top class wit.
Again....who would have thought then....that the first man on the moon would be dead when there were still no people living on the moon.
RIP Space.
NBC posted "Astronaut Neil Young" dies:
http://blog.zap2it.com/pop2it/2012/0...eil-young.html
When big news breaks, such as the death of first man to walk on the moon Neil Armstrong at the age of 82, all the news organizations are scrambling to get the news reported, and then put together a Life in Pictures gallery or edit a video montage.
NBC News got a little ahead of themselves when news of Armstrong's death hit the internet, posting a story with the headline, "Astronaut Neil Young, first man to walk on moon, dies at age 82."
Oops.
Paging Jimmy Fallon -- if "astronaut Neil Young" doesn't make an appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" Monday night, you have really dropped the ball, fella.
Aside from that, he led a good long life, and is one of the few people to ever escape the bonds of Earth's gravity.
Rest In Peace, Mr. Armstrong.
Of course because in the words of invisible sky daddyOriginally Posted by FORD
Genesis 1:16
Oh no wait a minute.God made two great lights--the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars.
That's complete fucking nonsense the moon only reflects the sun...
The "invisible sky daddy" didn't write the bible. And the King James version isn't a straight up translation of the bible either. I'm an agnostic myself. But I don't understand why atheists get so pissy about somebody elses believes.
I said God created the moon. I never said he did it so Adam & Eve could have a night light.
RIP Neil Armstrong.
how many here would like to take a trip to the moon, or to Mars?
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~~Maria Robinson
Not me the whole thing is pretty horrible, shit everywhere.
Navy seals are fairly tough guys but apparently when they opened the capsule when it landed a few of them threw up from the smell.
Sesh, you know that's complete bullshit. The moon landing was a gubment hoax, didn't ya know?
American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
My latest rant when people say that crap is to start a big explanation about how radio triangulation works and how it has been in common usage since WWII.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_finding
It's like you see in the old movies where the Germans knock down the door of the place the resistance have been transmitting messages from.
The Russians, Chinese and every other major power could very easily and accurately track the moon missions this way.
Another thing is that amateur astronomers all over the world were tracking the missions.
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/apollo.html
I'm hoping the excellent Mythbusters episode will have debunked some of this nonsense, I just find it so sad that people are so poisoned against the world that they won't accept maybe the greatest achievement of mankind despite overwhelming evidence, facts and stuff.
I can't believe there are actually people who still believe it was a hoax. Ah, at least the moon-landing-conspiracy-shows are fun to watch
don't mess with the guys who've been there...I can't believe there are actually people who still believe it was a hoax. Ah, at least the moon-landing-conspiracy-shows are fun to watch
It does save time as it tells you immediately that they are an idiot.
Go, Buzz!!
There are people out there that wouldn't believe we went to the moon even if they would have erected some kind of structure there you could see with a telescope.
Suprised no one mentioned the other beings chillin' out watching Armstrong take his small step. If these other beings have such capabities it seems a shame they had nothing better to do at the time.
I defenitelly wouldn't. I went out last night, and got migrene, my dad had to pick me up and drive me home. Imagine getting migrene in space. Is there more uncomfortable place to get sick. God, I love being home.
The heart is on the left. The blood is red.
And this is why mens go to the moon and womarns go to the store and pick up the party liquors for the mens
I don't do that eitherAnd this is why mens go to the moon and womarns go to the store and pick up the party liquors for the mens
Ah, it was a joke anyway. Ever heard of Squidbillies? Unknown Hinson?
I knew it was a joke :-) there are lots of female astronauts. Like the one with the diaper.
Never heard of those things.
Another neat little page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-p..._Moon_landings
Observers of all missions
The Soviet Union monitored the missions at their Space Transmissions Corps, which was "fully equipped with the latest intelligence-gathering and surveillance equipment".[26] Vasily Mishin ("The Moon Programme That Faltered."), in Spaceflight. 33 (March 1991), pages 2–3 describes how the Soviet Moon programme lost energy after the Apollo landing.
The missions were tracked by radar from several countries on the way to the Moon and back.[27]
The NASA Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN) was a world-wide network of stations that tracked the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab missions. Most MSFN stations were only needed during the launch, Earth orbit and landing phases of the lunar missions, but three "deep space" sites with larger antennas provided continuous coverage during the trans-lunar, trans-earth and lunar mission phases. Today, these three sites form the NASA Deep Space Network: the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex near Goldstone, California; the Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex near Madrid, Spain; and the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, in Tidbinbilla, near Canberra, Australia.
Although most MSFN stations were NASA-owned, they employed many local citizens. NASA also contracted the Parkes Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, to supplement the three deep space sites, most famously during the Apollo 11 EVA as documented in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia[28][29] and portrayed (humorously and not quite accurately) in the movie The Dish. The Parkes Observatory is not NASA-owned; it is, and always has been, owned and operated by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), a research agency of the Australian government.
Several other Australian sites which are no longer part of the Deep Space Network were also involved in relaying Apollo lunar transmissions. The deep space (lunar) tracking station was originally Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station. Carnarvon Tracking Station was one of the smaller and more numerous MSFN sites used primarily to support the near-earth segments of Apollo missions, though it also relayed data from the ALSEP lunar surface experiments. Due to its location on Australia's west coast, Carnarvon played a special role in the Apollo trans lunar injection and atmospheric reentry phases. Deakin Switching Centre routed the Apollo television broadcasts.[30]
It would have been relatively easy for NASA to avoid using the Parkes Observatory to receive the Apollo 11 EVA television signals by scheduling the EVA at an earlier time when the Goldstone station could provide complete coverage.
You should have just drank your way out of the migrene...
Astronauts go through pretty extensive training programs did you skip yours?
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
I didn't even wanna drink water cause I didn't wanna have something to throw up. I'm a shoe-woman, the training isn't quiet the same as for the astronauts
I think it migh have something to do with the weather change. We had +3 degrees this morning. Wait, I'll google how much it is in F.
Edit: 37.4 fahrenheit :-/
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Dear, That's fucking cold. It's still Summer I thoughtI didn't even wanna drink water cause I didn't wanna have something to throw up. I'm a shoe-woman, the training isn't quiet the same as for the astronauts
I think it migh have something to do with the weather change. We had +3 degrees this morning. Wait, I'll google how much it is in F.
Edit: 37.4 fahrenheit :-/
There aren't any candy assed liberals on the Moon.
RIP
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I have never experienced worst summer. It has been rain, hail, thunder whole time. Cold and bad weather? Yeah, summer is still here
I'll trade you that for this darn record heat and drought... although we're hoping Hurricane Isaac will change all that. It's expected to move into Arkansas late Thursday, early Friday with potential for flooding rain Friday. I'm not worried... live on top of a mountain.I have never experienced worst summer. It has been rain, hail, thunder whole time. Cold and bad weather? Yeah, summer is still here
No, thanks :-) It's so bitter that everybody gets what they already have plenty of. Nature should really find another way, cause this isn't working.
Why don't you come and live here? It's not so bad...
Primary reason... you can't play golf year round there. Secondary... I like being around my adult kids and grandchildren.
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