by Smitty
May Heaven rest Neil Armstrong. 
His secular immortality is assured. I’d just like to point out that, like the majority of astronauts, he was a Naval aviator. Navy: come for the service, stay for the chance to impact history. “I remain unvanquished,” indeed.
So, this November, remember: only one of the two candidates is likely to put America again on course to do something as sack-adelic as the Apollo program.
Neil Armstrong
Triumphantly treading titanium testicle territory ‘ternally
Testing.
RIP – Go Navy
Op test SAT.
That’s one small step in eternity,
One giant leap in life
To quote another blog:
“One last step for a great man.”
Is that the U S Navy you be braggin’ on? The one advertising itself as a global force for good? Bwwaaahahahahahaha
A few years ago they put up a statue of Neil Armstrong outside one of the Engineering buildings at Purdue, his alma mater. Not Neil Armstrong the astronaut, Neil Armstrong the college geek; a statue of him how he looked back when he was an undergrad student at Purdue.
Five hundred years from now, if the Lord don’t come, the student of Twentieth Century History in his class is going to learn about three men. The Villain: Hitler. The Visionary: Tolkien. The Venturer: Armstrong.
RIP to one of this country’s greatest and most humble of heros.
Armstrong was one of three great men on that mission. By the chance of LEM design placement of the door, he was first to walk on the moon and gained immortality for that.
But never forget that the real trick on that mission was up to Buzz Aldrin. He was entrusted to actually land a craft which had never been able to be tested in the conditions (because they didn’t exist anywhere else) on the moon safely, and fly back off it into orbit. A few ounces too much fuel used on landing might have doomed them to die on the surface.
It was an awesome job by awesome men that demonstrated American exceptionalism in science and aerospace engineering.
And don’t forget the loneliest man of all humanity while Armstrong and Aldrin explored the moon: Micheal Collins, command module pilot, orbiting the moon and waiting to see if his mates would be able to return with him.
Jethro Tull wrote a song for him: http://youtu.be/Z2y8v_Z-x64
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So is it Neil or Neal? You’re using both and you shouldn’t be.
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I blame us having to deal with Neal Rauhauser.
Smitty! You are bad ass, you know that? I was totally thinking of this Police song and almost hoisted it up in a post in remembrance of Mr. Armstrong. Some linkage may be in order for you sir. Way to work the blog-fu! Go Navy, RIP Neil “Rocketman” Armstrong 😉
Sully not this post with that name good sir. Belve-don’t!
Totally linked!
“When Armstrong noticed they were heading towards a landing area which he believed was unsafe, he took over manual control of the LM, and attempted to find an area which seemed safer, taking longer than expected, and longer than most simulations had taken.”
Yep, Armstrong landed it. That’s what I recalled, and wiki agrees.
Quite a straight arrow, that guy.