[Closed] Neil Armstrong dead

Balls of steel to do what he did.

RIP, a childhood hero of mine.

RIP, legend in his own right!

legend

balls bigger than king kong

put the _far_ into far out

Legend.

RIP.

Nowt on BBC yet...

#edit. RIP.

What? Oh dear - RIP.

R.I.P 🙁

[quote=Coyote said]Nowt on BBC yet...
#edit. RIP.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098

All in all a bad week for the Armstrongs.

Aye, RIP

RIP 🙁

Wonder if someone will get a conspiracy theory out of this.

RIP.

I was in the last year of infant school, noramly we would have gone to watcth the junior school sports day. Instead we where sheeperded into the school hall to watch 'history' in the making. A legand has passed 😥

Makes you ask...what have I done that people will remember me by?
As a Radio 4 listener, Neil's passing has a particularly poignent significance.
Hope we can honour his generation by equal feets of exploration.

[url=www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098]BBC report[/url]

Edit - missed allthepies' post above

Having a wee bubble.

Sad day 🙁

Genuinely can't think of a word to describe him. Hero, legend and inspirational all just don't seem superlative enough. There are so few people ever to have lived that can match him in the 'what I have achieved' league, and I'd wager fewer still will match him in the future.

It's a big loss for (a) man, but a giant loss for mankind. RIP.

If we all chipped in, bury him on the moon?

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Wow, what a man. Great memories. Great life.

dude... a symbol of aspiration.

As a Radio 4 listener, Neil's passing has a particularly poignent significance.

No way Eddie doesn't run with this... but comedy aside, and as per above XKCD, lunar travel just moved further into the past.

Lived part of our dreams. Did not cash in on his fame. Lunar exploration has moved a little further away... A true inspiration.

a true legend...but it begs the question...what tyres for the moon ?

Boldly went where no man was before.

RIP NA

Nads like an air balloon, all of these guys.

Wow, RIP. Legend.

Coincidentally, I was at the Science Museum today, looking at (amongst other things) an actual Apollo capsule. The one thing that I always thought astonshing about the whole thing was that none of them ever took one look at it and went, "you know, you can bugger off."

See, i was right. The first man to walk on the moon would end up dead.

Wish i was half as brave as he was. One of my and the world's true heroes.
Cojones the size of the moon.
RIP

lol @ bigyinn.

decent innings for a chap probably more exposed to radiation than most...

RIP. You showed us all the meaning of the 'Right Stuff'.

I was in the last year of infant school, noramly we would have gone to watcth the junior school sports day. Instead we where sheeperded into the school hall to watch 'history' in the making. A legand has passed

I think you missed English that day as well.

He had to land it manually 'cos the computer broke, and had only a few seconds of fuel left. Ice cool doesn't begin to describe him.

sad to think if we don't pull our fingers out, there will be no one left on this planet that has stood on another world.

Who can say they've had a better work photo taken?

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A true pioneer. Goodnight Sir

Hmmm, just caught this on the news. Can remember gathering a few families around a TV set in 1969... Gobsmacked even now.

Quietest man with the biggest world achievement on his watch.

Godspeed Neil Armstrong.

Wow, so sad, but what a life to have lived. Parents woke me up as a 5 yr old to watch him step onto the moon's surface, still a vivid memory.

Lost for words. An incredible man.

What a stunning life that man had
Thanks Neil, you made me forever look at the moon and think, WOW!

one of many brave people who make you feel so humble with their humility.

Some great pictures of Apollo 11 etc on: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html

I dont think we will do anything as amazing as that again, sadly.

I still retain hope that we will.

We've just got to stop doing stupid things first.

we watched it at primary school, truly part of history

I like his wifes comment about the reason for his reclusive style - he felt embarrased about the fact that 10,000 people put him there and he got all the glory

When I look up the moon it seems so far away, and he went there!!!!

An amazing human being RIP 😥

[list]Among the finest men of the 20th century. Long may his piloting of the lunar lander and his words be remembered: a small step for man; a giant leap for mankind. When we look at pictures of The Earth taken from The Moon we see our home for what it is - a lovely blue-green planet in the inky void of space. Rest in peace Neil.

when I was a 5 or 6 year old child all I wanted to do is draw or make in lego was Saturn 5 space rockets and men landing on the moon. A part of my childhood just died. Neil Armstrong was a symbol of the best of our human abilities.