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Bad week to be an Armstrong, apparently.

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Eternal Father, King of birth,
Who didst create the heaven and earth,
And bid the planets and the sun
Their own appointed orbits run;
O hear us when we seek thy grace
For those who soar through outer space.

~ “Eternal Father, Strong To Save” or “Navy Hymn” – Astronaut stanza.

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I watched him take his steps on the moon with a room full of filthy hippies who claimed to have dropped acid for the occasion (don’t ask). Buzz wasn’t the only man on the moon that day.

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*Neil* rather. Yikes.

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The Green Hills of Earth by Robert Heinlein

Let the sweet fresh breezes heal me
As they rove around the girth
Of our lovely mother planet
Of the cool, green hills of Earth.

We’ve tried each spinning space mote
And reckoned its true worth:
Take us back again to the homes of men
On the cool, green hills of Earth.

The arching sky is calling
Spacemen back to their trade.
ALL HANDS! STAND BY! FREE FALLING!
And the lights below us fade.

Out ride the sons of Terra,
Far drives the thundering jet,
Up leaps a race of Earthmen,
Out, far, and onward yet —

We pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave us birth;
Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies
And the cool, green hills of Earth.

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That was an awesome summer when he left the earth to walk on the moon and returned to a very proud America. Good times remembered, never forgotten.

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Myself I remember watching it on an old B&W tv.

Shortly thereafter I got my first space toy.
An astronaut with a propeller on his head run by batteries connected by an ambilical chord that you would spin around to simulate flying.

Thought it was 1 of the coolest toys dad ever bought me.

Then mom started buying these space stick candy, it was like a tootsie roll. Without Neil landing on the moon I might not have known or gotten any of those when I was a kid.
The whole country was enamored and proud.

Next to the grandparents, the last true hero to pass.

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The moon landing was a total fake and the whole thing was actually shot in a Hollywood back lot. The astronauts couldn’t live through the radiation in the Van Allen belts….. just f*cking with ya!!! RIP Armstrong. However with NASA at the fore front of the global warming scam, it’s wouldn’t suprise me if they tried to fake a Mars landing…..

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He will forever hold the distinction of being “The First”. A GREAT first, unlike the…OTHER first which stains the land today.

RIP Mr. Armstrong.

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I was 6 yrs. old and didn’t fully understand what was happening while watching with my grandparents. They explained to me and he (and all of them) became my hero’s. Bless your family and all that loved you. RIP.

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I was 16 that Summer, Sunday July, 20, 1969. I’ll never forget it or how much pride we had on that day as Americans that we had put a man on the moon. I remember talking to an older gentleman the next day whose business was next door to my Dad’s gas station and what he thought of it. He was amazed that we were able to put a man on the moon and very happy that he lived to see it happen in his lifetime. Good bye Neil Armstrong, Godspeed and I would have been proud to have been your plane captain if I could have served in your fighter squadron when you were a Naval aviator before you became an astronaut.

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Saved the Houston paper when we landed on the moon. Put it in the attic.

Mom threw away all that ol’ trash I saved up there.

Very sad. Big Armstrong fan, I was, and am.

RIP.

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I always think about the people that were born around the last decade of the 19th Century. They were close to their early teens when Orville and Wilbur Wright taught us to fly. They were around 80 when Neil Armstrong took us to the stars. They saw both the beginning of flight and its ultimate expression in space. They were in awe of the wood and fabric and wires doing what up until that time, only God’s creatures could do. They experienced the power and majesty of metal and chemicals and fire shot into the vacuum of space — a place were none of God’s creatures could go.

But they are all gone now. And even though we have the photos and movies of these things, they lived through them when both were new. Only they had the experience for the ages.

My mother’s mother was one. And, until the day she died, she knew how special her place in history was.

I don’t know if there will ever be another leap in technology like those 70 years. Think about that — less than 70 years from first flight to walking on the moon. Think of all the people that tried to fly before the Wrights. All of those centuries of dreaming and scheming and trial and error and getting SO CLOSE but falling at the finish line only to see two bicycle dealers pull it off. And then someone snaps their fingers and Neil Armstrong is walking on the moon.

Sometimes, it’s like a vacation post card. Wish I was there…for both.

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Rest in Peace Mr. Armstrong.
God bless you and your family and
The United States of America.

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Rest In Peace, Mr. Armstrong. He was the very embodiment of the United States.

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Remember sitting with my dad watching the flight and landing. TV reception was not that great, but we watched for hours – one of the best memories I’ve every had. Thank God for brave Americans like Mr. Armstrong. May he rest in peace knowing, he has with humility, fulfilled a great purpose.

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How many people in history can claim any type of achievement that compares?

Well of course Barry will but I mean realistically.

P.S. – You didn’t make that footprint. Somebody else did that.

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Rest in Peace Colonel Armstrong.

High Flight
by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds…and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of…wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up, the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle flew.
And while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space…
…put out my hand, and touched the face of God.You have “slipped the surly bonds of Earth and have touched the face of God”

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IronyCurtain, you are so correct. We reached for the real stars in those days. But the ‘stars’ we reach for today are quite disappointing.

I think of what we accomplished in those days. And watch reruns and find myself saying it was so long ago. I hope when we change out the WH, that we look again to the wonders of what we can do when we reach beyond our earthly bounds?

Maybe we could test new rockets towards 32° 00′ N and 53° 00′ E??

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I was a few days shy of nine years old when “Our Men” stepped on new ground. Watched at my Dad’s house as it played out. Even then, I knew this would be a Day of Days. My Dad told me that I was born at the begining of the “Space Age” and that has always stayed with me. May the Lord Bless You and Keep You Neil! We will keep your memory in our hearts and minds. You are cleared for lift off, one last time.

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R.I.P. Neil
Now you can go to the moon whenever you want.

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I was in junior high then and cable cost $5.00/month. We landed men on the moon using several rooms full of computers and guys with slip sticks (slide rule) and I slapped an “Aim High” Air Force bumper sticker on my headboard.

When my husband frustrates me I sigh, “Gee, you’d think if we could put a man on the moon, we could put all men on the moon.”

I didn’t follow Neil Armstrong’s career closely, but I was sure in love with Story Musgrave.

RIP fellow traveler, Neil Armstrong. You made us all Aim High.

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When was the last time we were so proud of our country?

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And good luck Mr. Grodsky.

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NBC done it agin. Hacks.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-08-25/news/sns-rt-blooper-errormt1thewrap53461-20120825_1_astronaut-neil-neil-armstrong-neil-young

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