RIP: Neil Armstrong
Aug. 25th, 2012 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aota"Neil Armstrong was a quiet self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot he made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step on to the moon. The modest man who had people on Earth entranced and awed from almost a quarter million miles away has died. He was 82."
I remember as a child with my toy plastic Saturn V rocket following along with his mission. I'd separate each section as it came off on the real rocket. When he landed we cheered! When he went out onto the surface we cheered again. To me it was humanity's proudest moment. Goodbye Neil Armstrong.
I remember as a child with my toy plastic Saturn V rocket following along with his mission. I'd separate each section as it came off on the real rocket. When he landed we cheered! When he went out onto the surface we cheered again. To me it was humanity's proudest moment. Goodbye Neil Armstrong.
