Captain Armstrong’s colleagues, those who actually knew him, commemorate him in a way none of us ever could. Look at the Apollo 11 patch. It did not have the names of the astronauts on it as was customary, because Neil Armstrong, being the mission commander, wanted this mission to be about the greatness of America, not the astronauts, and watch the video of his compatriots talking about what a great and humble man he was.
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“It wasn’t about him, it was about the greatness of America”; Fellow NASA colleagues commemorate Neil Armstrong
by Bob in Breckenridge ( 4 Comments › )Filed under Astronomy, History, Military, Science, Space Exploration, Special Report at September 19th, 2012 - 7:11 am
Bigass Balls – These guys had ’em.
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 33 Comments › )Filed under History at August 25th, 2012 - 11:00 pm
RIP Neil Armstrong.
Getting there and back was the easy part. There were engineers with slide rules to calc it, check it and recheck, hundreds of times, just to put a compact package on the moon.
This particular package contained men with bigger balls than anyone on the planet.
In 1969, most of the US population was focused on Apollo 11 without realizing how it came to be. The only reason we put a man on the moon was to scare the Soviets, and it worked. Brute force technology, just to prove a political point.
But that has nothing to do with the pure balls required by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins (and the rest of NASA) to say “BITE THIS, KHRUSHCHEV! We’re Going To The Fuckin’ Moon – Because WE CAN!” and then have the balls to risk their own lives doing exactly that.
RIP Neil Armstrong.
40 Years Ago Today, Man Walked On The Moon
by WrathofG-d ( 51 Comments › )Filed under Science at July 20th, 2009 - 11:27 am
“One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Today is the 40th anniversary of the day that man walked on the moon. The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of Project Apollo and the third human voyage to the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr.
On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.