EPTNeil Armstrong passes away at age 82 - Page 10
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On August 26 2012 04:19 xwoGworwaTsx wrote: Did he tell the secret to anyone before he died? RIP Mr. Armstrong! EDIT: I am removing this red warning line. Failing warned me for all the wrong reasons. I remember watching a documentary where Armstrong specifically saying that he wishes to share a secret by the time he dies. User was temp banned for this post. I still see it. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
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A real hero that Humanity was lucky to have. | ||
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On August 26 2012 08:41 Thorakh wrote: He will go down in history as the first man ever to set foot on an alien world. RIP Yep, the name Neil Armstrong will live on for pretty much all of human history. I mean we still talk about Christopher Columbus hundreds of years later and all he did was "discover" a continent that had millions of people already on it and had been discoverd a bunch of times already before. I find it quite frustrating that humans went from pretty much no flight ~1900, to going to space ~1960, to putting a man on the moon ~1970 and in the past 40 years, even despite technology advancing at an exponential rate, we still haven't pushed things. Considering the technology used to get to the moon, going back there, or going to Mars, would be almost trivial. People say it's a "waste" of money, do you realize how many billions of dollars the government pisses away on absolute crap ever year? The US is going broke because of runaway defense and entitlement spending, the NASA budget is a drop in the bucket. Cutting the space exploration budger to save money is like being a 500 lb man leaving off the pickle slices on his triple cheeseburger in an attempt to cut calories and lose weight. Everyone please watch | ||
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Video of Armstrong surviving a crash Two years later, Armstrong was flying a far more ignoble machine — the ugly, insectile Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV). The 22-ft., 2,500 lb., four-legged contraption was never supposed to climb much more than 1,000 ft. off the ground and was intended, as its name makes clear, to allow Apollo pilots to practice landing the lunar module — a spacecraft they would never get to fly for real until the day they were required to try to set it down on the surface of the moon. On May 6, 1968, Armstrong had the thing just a few hundred feet off the ground at Ellington Air Force Base in Texas, when it stopped responding to his commands, violently swinging first one way, then the other. When the LLTV went into a straight, shallow dive, it was clear the game was over. Armstrong ejected, the LLTV crashed, and he descended gently to the ground, passing directly through the oily cloud of black smoke the wrecked machine was giving off. An hour later, astronaut Al Bean heard the news, and dashed over to Armstrong’s Ellington office hoping, but not really suspecting, he’d be there. Bean found the future first man on the moon sitting at his desk, filing paperwork. He spluttered something about the accident and asked if Armstrong was OK. “Mm-hmm,” came the response. History did not record if Armstrong ever looked up. Read more: http://science.time.com/2012/08/25/remembering-neil-armstrong-a-man-of-profound-skill-and-preternatural-calm/#ixzz24dNfQfzA | ||
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redviper
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Oddly enough this is the first time I have ever seen his face in a picture, but even as a child I had heard his voice. | ||
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Fleshcut
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I always thought we will make it to Mars by the time he died but this seems to be a more difficult task. :/ | ||
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Abductedonut
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I'm sure some of you would be glad to know that Neil was a Trojan, having graduated Viterbi with a masters degree in aerospace engineering. FIGHT ON!! | ||
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