Goodbye Neil Armstrong 8-25-12

Sad news indeed - RIP

Farewell to a TRUE American Hero.

I dont think he was just an american hero Stik. Even i looked up to and admired this man when i was a kid.

RIP old boy. May your skies be ever clear.

I had the pleasure of meeting Neil Armstrong at Oshkosh several years ago. I stood in awe in front of a real American hero. RIP Neil, you have taken that final gigantic step.

Yes. Awesome achievement!

Godspeed , Mr Armstrong...... 

Rest in Tranquility.......

Wow! Can't believe it has been that long! I remember I ran to the corner newspaper machine and bought the Miami Herald with the huge caption "One Small Step For Man, A Giant Leap For Mankind" I had that paper till a few years but and lost it in one of my many moves. RIP Neil.

I will never forget watching the moon landing live on fuzzy B & W tv, in 1969- it was one day after my 28th birthday.  A thrilling event- God bless you, Mr .Armstrong.!

Tranquility! I went out and looked at the moon this evening.

It is one of the very best things we've achieved.

This is the first i have heard, not seen it on the news yet. Sad news indeed.

I was born a few months after the moon landing, but i can always say i was born in the same year that man first set foot on the moon, even if i didn't se it myself.

The best part is that according to his comrades, he was always very humble and thought he was "just one of the guys." Always great to see someone with every right to brag, but chooses not to do so.

RIP Mr. Armstrong.  Thank you for inspiring a whole generation (future ones as well). 

As a small boy I remember watching all the early space flights from the Mercury program, Gemini and Apollo. The whole nation held it breath as Neil made his landing. Sadly Neil Armstrong may be gone but his foot prints are forever on the moon.

I had three large boxes full of stuff from Mercury to Skylab. Newspaper front pages,magazine articles, books, promo materials, food packaging labels, cereal boxes, "Science Service" sets, posters, NASA publications, anything I found that was space related.

Unfortunately it was "discarded" when my parents moved while I was away at college.

I guess I got off easy, my sister lost all her original 1959-1963 Barbie doll stuff during the same move. OUCH!

I remember when my dad used to talk about his work at Koaka Kentron tracking station in Kauai, Hawaii when we lived there back in the day and my dad telling us that the Flight Surgeon was listening in on the Apollo 11 crew's vitals upon landing and what the crew was talking about during the mission. now Neils gone but he will still be remembered as the FIRST MAN ON THE MOON

Neil Armstrong died about ten miles or so, as the crow flies, from where I am sitting right now.  He was a very private person, who was none-the-less active in many worthy causes.  Among his other civic and charitable involvements in our community, he was on the Board of Advisors of the Tri-State Warbird Museum (of which I am an annual member), and was instrumental in promoting and helping to raise funds for that institution, which preserves, restores and maintains flight-worthy World War II aircraft.  He will be missed by greater Cincinnati, his long-time adopted home town, especially much.  Hand salute.

Strange that NASA is just now (9-13-12) having the main memorial ceremony!

Anyone have a link to watch a replay of this? I've Googled and looked on NASA TV and can't find anything.

Is that why the flag is at half mast?

There was a  private memorial service for Neil's family, friends and associates here in Cincinnati on 8/31/12.  I was surprised that there was another in Washigton, D.C (public, I believe) so long after, just prior to his burial at sea a day or two later.  Perhaps 'they' waited for the smoke to clear from the Presidential nominating conventions.  That's all I can think of ...