Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at age 82, NBC News has learned

Twitter | 08/25/12 | Kevin Davis

[itssme]

Ditto, see my post #280. Some of us have had experiences that made believers out of us. Read what the astronauts had to say. As Jim Lovell said, “there IS a Santa Claus.” You'll see what he meant if you check out www.syti.net/UFOsightings.html.

[jboot]

My father was with the Army’s Nike air defense program from ‘59-’74. Before he died he told me they had missiles up (i.e. ready for launch) at least once for UFOs. It may not sound significant, but it actually was. Dad told me that he could count the number of times that they raised the missiles outside of a drill on one hand. The missiles had nuclear warheads, so it was deadly serious business. Dad didn’t believe in much of anything, but he was fairly sure about UFOs.

[jboot]

While the Saturn V was massively powerful it was a purring kitten to ride. But I am in awe of those early guys that rode the Redstone, Mercury-Atlas and Gemini-Titan. Those boosters were all wild broncos that beat the tar out of their crews. On top of that the Atlas was immature and was still having gas-generator problems that could lead to catastrophic failure (and did on several unmanned flights). But those fellows rode them without batting an eye. That took balls.