Neil Alden Armstrong

Very sad to hear. RIP Neil.

I seem to recall that some conspiracy morons insisted the landing was a hoax because their detective skills noticed the flag was waving as though there was a breeze, ergo, the picture was faked given away by an earthly breeze. Similiar morons are still in our midsts.

I recall that morning clearly, I made a point to get up real early to watch the TV coverage.

Rest in peace Neil.

My grandfather was 85 at the time of the moon landing and was amazed by this and at the advances since his youth. He passed away a few months later.

I remember watching the lunar landing and thinking how much work, how much time it had taken to get to the moon, how these people were the very best that the USA had, and how this was the best in the world.
Looking back on it now, how nobody had dissed America then, how this was the height of science, and hoping they regain that moment.

RIP Neil. You've served your country well.

"Hope Eyrie"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cVOOXQo22o

But we who feel the weight of the wheel
When winter falls over our world
Can hope for tomorrow and raise our eyes
To a silver moon in the open skies
and a single flag unfurled.

The world has lost a very brave man. I remember we watched every Mercury, Gemini and Apollo launch with bated breath. These men were our heroes.
RIP Neil may you soar with the angels.

A great loss to America, and the world, and a reminder of just how badly NASA has bungled their mission in the years since 1969. Back in the day, I figured we would be looking at a permanently-occupied Moon base by now, with manned missions to Mars already having happened.

RIP, Neil Armstrong.

Good luck, Mr. Armstrong.

Godspeed Neil Armstrong.

I'm saddened by this. I followed his flying career before he was named to the astronaut corp, when he was a test pilot.
A brave, talented gutsy guy.
Rest In Peace Neil.

Sad news. And to think Obama wanted to turn NASA into a Muslim outreach program.

Sad news. And to think Obama wanted to turn NASA into a Muslim outreach program.

He was an inspiration to generations. Rest in peace Neil, you will be missed.

The quintessential example of the great, quiet American. He was the perfect choice to be the first man to set foot on the moon.

Where were you when Armstrong stepped on the moon? I was camping with my family. We listened to it on the radio. Magical night.

Thanks Mr. Armstrong!

Men like him where the equivalent of the explorers of North America.
To bad we now have the safety nannies today. If the same Beta males had been in charge in the 60s, we never would of made it to the Moon. In fact neither Canada or America would have existed without trailblazers like these with courage.
You need people with courage to explore. Not crybabies.
Cowardice is the post modern standard.
Look how the European gives way to Islam, or others who blame them for the high standard of living they have.
Thank God for a moment in time we had real heroes not mental zeros.

My family gathered together with other members of our extended Family and long time friends of the childrens Grandparents.

A moment to remember in a Canadian city of a remarkable achievement for America and Man--kind and a giant leap forward.

To think, the typical "smart phone" now has more connecting and calculating power than the equipment to take three men to the moon (one in orbit) and BRING them Back. Astounding!

Bless the dedication of all and the contribution made by the several Canadian engineers who had a chance to share in this glorious venture.

God's continuing kindness and guidance to Neil Armstrong in his new adventure. Cheers;

I remeber watching the Appolo moon landing as a little boy, it was awe inspiring then and still is now...Godspeed Mr. Armstrong.

He didn't giant leap that.

In July 1969, I was at Scout Camp in Haliburton, Ontario. It was glorious - canoeing, camping, catching fish - but I missed the whole thing. When I got back to Don Mills, I asked my mom about it, and the thing that amazed her the most wasn't that we got to the moon; it was the fact that we televised it. I was 13, living in a world without PCs, cellphones, intratubes - heck, we didn't even have a colour TV!

I've seen the scene over and over. I've even seen the studio in Hollywood where they shot it. But I still regret not seeing it in person; that's a huge miss.

RIP and God bless you Neil Armstrong.
I still remember well three particular episodes from the American space program. The first was my older brother telling me we had to watch the tv in the morning (unheard of in our house) because they were going to launch a man into space on a rocket. I thought that was kind of neat, so I with my brother and my Teddy Bear watched Alan Shepard being fired into space. The second was the astronauts reading from Genesis during one of the early Apollo missions. The third was being half asleep on the couch with my brother and father in front of the tv waiting to watch the first men land on the moon, those of course, being Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Those grainy black and white images inspired our imaginations. And now they, and he, Armstrong, belong to the ages. No other human being can ever be the first man to have set foot on the moon.

Rest in peace Mr. Armstrong.

First man on the moon...It does not get any more impressive than that...RIP.

What an achievement, and what a tribute to enterprise and individual bravery and sacrifice. A number of years ago I visited Cape Canaveral in Florida. There they had a real Saturn Five rocket lying on its side as one of the exhibits. The sheer enormity of that machine was breathtaking; I found it difficult to believe how huge it was, and the amount of human ingenuity and effort went into creating such a thing.

But at the end of the day, it all boiled down to one guy taking one step; of course it wasn't just the step, it was the courage and effort required for that one person to arrive at that moment in time. Says a lot about successful human endeavours.

One last step for Mankind's kind of Man. RIP, Neal.

Make that "Neil".

Where were you when he stepped on the moon.........

I was born April 22 1970. My parents were celebrating the event on a beach at Candle Lake.

The first moon landing was an event I still remember clearly. At that time it seemed to be the beginning of a new era where we'd soon be creating moon bases and then sending manned expeditions to Mars and other planets. It never occurred to me that the moon would be as far as we'd get before human stupidity gained the upper hand again.

I've been to Cape Canaveral multiple times and think that Saturn V lying on it's side should really be standing up to really give people a perspective of how massive a machine this was. That we haven't come close to equaling that achievement is a sad reflection on the decline of western civilization. Really, the whole Apollo program was driven by Wernher von Braun who was still using 1940's ideas, just scaled up to come up with the Saturn V.

It must have been very painful for Neil Armstrong and the other astronauts who had the privilege of walking on the moon to see the decline in the US space program. Space is where we should be going and we could have had a moonbase as well as multiple space habitats with all the money wasted on watermelon projects. RIP Neil.

I hope Mr Armstrong was able to take the scenic route,on the way home.

I don't believe for a second today's trendy workplace phrase "there isn't any room for cowboy's anymore."

God Bless the risk takers.

Ken @ 3:30;
Like your grandfather my grandmother lived to see the moon landing.

She came north to BC out of Utah in 1882 by wagon. 1100 miles. She drove her parents around the neighbourhood, before WWI, in a Model T Ford. Never got a drivers license in her entire life. Was a midwife to hundreds of babies and was key to founding the Presbyterian Church in our town.

She has been gone for a long time now but often wonder what she would think about today's world. I am pretty sure she would be very dissapointed. She marveled at the moon landing but was absolutely floored by her first air flight from Cranbrook to Victoria.

The Globe and Mail (not our favorite at SDA) has Neil Armstrong's story at the top of the web page. Plus they include my all time favorite picture of Mr. Armstrong. Meanwhile over at Fox News he is now relegated to the silly and soft porn links, doh !

Shame on you Fox. Thank you G and M, we noticed !

"Neil Armstrong never walked on the moon!" - Barack Obama.