First Lance, then Neil. I bet Alexander Armstrong is kakking himself

Like MF, I have similar memories of the moon landing.

I remember the launch (and a few others around that time), but more than anything I remember my dad coming into my (Thunderbirds wallpaper decorated!) bedroom and getting me up to watch it. Grainy black and white pictures, the wait for the touchdown after the seperation and then the landing followed by those few footsteps.

Then back to bed.

I wouldn't even have been five when it happened, but it remains etched into my brain, and I'd suspect that it's largely responsible for my love of SF ever since.

If only.

Oh, and for the doubters and nay sayers...

You do realise that this all took part at the height of the Cold War, and that the rocket and lander were tracked by both the USSR and Chinese, along with the radio broadcasts?

If there had been any suspicion of duplicitous behaviour, I'm sure one of these would have mentioned it by now....

The other thing that is coming to mind, and watching the old videos on YouTube, is the full understanding of everything that was going on, the stages of the Apollo rocket, the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the fact that only the top bit left the moon and left the landing stage behind, the maouvres that had to be done when in orbit to get the Lunar Module in position, and then finally the tiny capsule that returned to earth...

...all of this explained in painstaking detail on the BBC by James Burke and Patrick Moore who followed the Apollo missions live each evening and brought Science Fact (not Fiction) to us 1960s Space Kids - one of the earlier Apollo missions (8?) was the first manned rocket to orbit the moon and there was a genuine suspense as they went out of radio contact whilst "behind" the moon, all covered live on TV, like others its quite annoying when those who weren't even born suggest that none of this happened, we were there, we saw it live on TV, several brave men from two nations died during the American and Russian space missions, don't try and tell me I didn't see any of this with my own eyes

Spot on.

[url=http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81636055/And don't try telling the second man to walk on the moon that he didn't really do it.[/url

Belief that the moon landings were faked should be sufficient justification for being put down in my book.

Achieved one of, if not the greatest single feat in human history ... the more you read about the first moon landing the more you realise what an incredible achievement it was to fly a tin can to the moon and back using a computer that had a lower spec than my microwave (and I own a pretty cheap microwave).

Hopefully something good will come of his passing and along with the current wave of interest in the Curiosity Mars Rover it'll spark humanity in to another push to test the boundaries of our abilities.

RLFANS needs a "Like" button for shiz like this.

Don't think there is any doubt man has stepped on the moon but whether it was Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969 is debatable





A person that will live long in the history books none the less and said one of the most well known quotes of all time.

I really can't credit it. Not only that there are people naive or stupid enough to still doubt the Moon landings, but that they would be so crass as to intrude with their asining ramblings on an RIP thread.

Not that the sane part of the human population thought it would make any difference to these lunatics and knuckle draggers, but as a kick in the proverbials for them, and as a tribute to one of man's greatest achievements, here's one of the images taken in July by the Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter of the Apollo 11 landing site where, funnily enough, everything is still there. And will forever be, as the best tribute to Neil Armstrong of all.



Larger image on NASA site:
[urlhttp://www.nasa.gov/images/content/628459main_Apollo_11.jpg[/url

Photographers or anyone wanting a play with the full-res image strip, try this:
[urlhttp://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M104362199R[/url

Pah!
They are just drawn on. Especially those labels and arrows.

Why did they not scuff out a message with their boots in the Moon's surface dust saying 'Hi mom' in large letters?
Any 'normal' American would have done that.
Because they never went there that's why.
Proof positive.

Stand Offish, you should have gone to specsavers.
enlarge the pic and look in the bottom left hand corner
can t you see what is written in the soil......





























NEIL WOZ ' ERE 1969.

My story of watching the landings is very similar to MCF but i was 2 years younger.i would imagine nearly anyone in the world with or near a telly back then watched the landing and walk.

Only a Brit chav would have put 'WOZ 'ERE'.
So on that basis, you are telling porkies.

You never heard of Chad then ?

WOT? NO GRAFITTI?

Apparently he rated his chances of surviving the mission at "about 90%".

There's a story in one of today's papers about how he nearly died on the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. He and his co astronaut were on the verge of falling unconscious after the craft started spinning wildly. He only just managed to correct the fault. If he'd failed there would have been 2 corpses orbiting the earth for the next 10 years, something which would probably have brought an end to the programme.

I was fortunate to attend one of his very few lectures. Rather like listening to an avuncular university professor, a genuinely modest man who seemed completely unaffected by his experiences.

Yes, it's a landlocked country in Africa, capital N’Djamena.
Next!
And neither Kilroy, Chad nor Foo would have put 'woz 'ere'.
They put 'was here'.

I still want to know why they stripped him of the Tour de France victories ?

Because he was drug pedalling (sic).

A great pilot who will be remembered forever.

RIP Neil.

First Michael Jackson and now Neil Armstrong.





God really isn't a fan of the moonwalk is he?

A great pilot and sinner who will be remembered forever by God as a trespasser.

You've never heard of Photoshop



RIP Neil

An all time hero of mine, as a 12 year old I was glued to the mission on the telly and subsequent missions. Never forget visiting Kennedy Space Centre when I docked in Mayport Naval Base in 1978 and had my photo took next to a full size Saturn 5 rocket, amazing stuff. How many humans will be remembered in a 10,000 years ? , the likes of Armstrong, Gagarin will be, I am sure, true pioneers who optimise the real human spirit of adventure.

where will NA be buried, Arlington maybe ? (or maybe cremated ?) - the reason for asking is that you mentioned Gagarin and I have visited his cremated remains that are behind a plaque in the wall of the Kremlin about 50 yards from Lenins tomb - he is still considered a hero of the Soviet Union - NA will surely have the same kind of status ?