Astronaut Neil Armstrong has died.

[Caramac]

NBC News ‏@NBCNews

NBC NEWS confirms: Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died.

 

[Anubis]

One of mankind's great pioneers.

[Furmedge]

Probably faked it.

[Fowlers God]

For a minute there I got confused with the drug taking cyclist. But then I realised this dude never actually acheived anything real either. Maybe its the name armstrong. Wankers the pair of em.

[Newport]

I bet Buzz Aldrin is proper pissed.

[The Acolyte]

Took the secret to his grave

[Dougie Do'ins]

For a minute there I got confused with the drug taking cyclist. But then I realised this dude never actually acheived anything real either. Maybe its the name armstrong. Wankers the pair of em.

That's a bit of a Stretch that FG.

[TheBitch]

That's a bit of a Stretch that FG.

 

Nice.

[Neil G]

I was named after him, and he was one of my childhood heroes even though he did his thing before I was born.

 

Gutted.

[Magic Sponge]

Incredible man.

[Redder Lurtz]

One of mankind's great pioneers.

 

This.

 

The conspiracy theorists all need to grow up and get over it. Armstrong's name will forever by synonymous with space exploration.

[moof]

Mental that people still believe the moon landings were faked

[Newport]

Mental that people still believe the moon landings were faked

 

You'd be surprised about how much people are willing to believe if they are told in the right way.

[clangers]

You'd be surprised about how much people are willing to believe if they are told in the right way.

 

Didn't the Japanese send a probe to the moon a couple of years ago that actually took photographic evidence of the moon landing?

 

It's pretty ridiculous to question the achievement and anyway with 9/11 and 2012 I thought the conspiracy theorists had new subject matter to focus on?

 

A truly great man and a man more than anyone else from our era who will be remembered. Roll forward five hundred years and people will know who Neil Armstrong was.

[magicrat]

Didn't the Japanese send a probe to the moon a couple of years ago that actually took photographic evidence of the moon landing?

 

It's pretty ridiculous to question the achievement and anyway with 9/11 and 2012 I thought the conspiracy theorists had new subject matter to focus on?

 

A truly great man and a man more than anyone else from our era who will be remembered. Roll forward five hundred years and people will know who Neil Armstrong was.

Spot on. Great man and Ill never forget the excitement of being allowed to stay up and watch the blurred black and white pictures of the landing. Awesome at the time to think a man had stepped onto another world and made anything seem possible for while.

[Baldi]

The man I wanted to be growing up....then Kenny came along.

[Redder Lurtz]

Nice quote from Charles Bolden, head of Nasa:

 

"As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own."

[Lee909]

An amazing human achievement,we really have taken a step back in human space travel.

As others have said,as long as documented human history continues he will be remembered.

How many people have truly done something they can say has never been done before?

To be remembered as the first person to ever set foot on a another planet/moon must have been an amazing feeling.

[clangers]

An amazing human achievement,we really have taken a step back in human space travel.

 

It's a question of perspective, we look back on human achievement as one event without ever realising that in reality each step is often several hundred years apart.

 

Space exploration is such a huge commitment that each significant step will most likely be generations apart.

[Lee909]

Surely though a issue will be the longer it's left before a mission is attempted the less people who have any experience of space travel are about to offer advice.

It's 40 years since the Apollo missions,surly we should have had people at least on longer missions,maybe mars orbits.

[clangers]

Surely though a issue will be the longer it's left before a mission is attempted the less people who have any experience of space travel are about to offer advice.

It's 40 years since the Apollo missions,surly we should have had people at least on longer missions,maybe mars orbits.

 

I agree, I can't remember if it was Armstrong or Aldrin who said that it won't be until we try to go back that we'll realise how difficult it was to get there in the first place.

 

The sheer cost and commitment alongside the incremental advances in technology we require to go to the moon and then perhaps on to Mars means that at best these events are decades if not centuries apart.

 

Interesting thing I watched recently was a NASA scientist discussing the Mars rover, it's been designed as a potential dry run for how a manned craft would land on the moon and Mars.

[Trumo]

One of the most extraordinary things about the Apollo 11 mission (and indeed other missions around that time) is the amount of computer power used in comparison with your common-or-garden household devices today.

[Preston Red]

First it was Michael Jackson, now it's Neil Armstrong.

 

Maybe God doesn't like Moonwalkers.

[Ginny]

They saw evidence of non-human life on the moon. That's why he went underground. And that why they have never been back.

[Guest San Don]

They saw evidence of non-human life on the moon. That's why he went underground. And that why they have never been back.

 

That was on the way to the moon, hence the famous Apollo 11 request to Houston for an update on 'the exact location of the SIV-B' (3rd stage rocket booster) in relation to them. Houston's response was of it being some 3000 nautical miles downrange of them.