Posted on 08/28/2012 6:20:39 AM PDT by shortstop
He also was openly critical of the White Hut's (non-)space policy. I'm sure that went a long way to putting him on Zero's sh*tlist.
Shout out for Astronaut Michael Collins, the third member of the Apollo 11 crew.
Because the current President was only "Made In America?"
He does not have a clue how to speak of nor honor anyone of greatness?
And of course the minions surrounding him could care less of anything that might acknowledge "American Exceptionalism"
Whitney Houston got nearly a week of having the flag at half staff. How does she rate above Neil Armstrong? Neil has accomplished more than she has in an endeavor that MEANT something. Singing and acting are fluff compared to going to the moon and doing what Neil and the rest of those guys did back then. The shooting at that temple a few weeks ago garnered a few days of having the flag lowered. And Neil gets ONE DAY!
Does he deserve a state funeral? Probably because of who is was, that being the first to set foot on another world. But he was a private man and will get a private service. He may have wanted things that way. He may have been embarassed by a full blown state funeral.
Brings back memories of the early space program.
I can still name all 7 Mercury astronauts. Alan Shepherd, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper, and Deke Slayton. Back in the day, they were all heroes.
They all paved the way for the Appolo moon landings, and all other space activity since.
they will be remembered, as long as history is taught. Do they teach school kids about things such as the moon landings?
I got in an argument the other day with somebody, about California’s new law that requires teaching homosexual, trans-whatever history. I said that with limited school time, that teaching homosexual history would crowd out other things. And I am convinced that history such as our space program could indeed be squeezed out in favor of politically correct history.
Along with the American Flag, Armstrong and Aldrin left this little item on the surface of the moon.
The Apollo One Mission patch designed by the three astronauts themselves.
A memorial to their three comrades who died in the command module fire during a test on the launch pad. Apollo One, the flight that never was.
The investigation of the fire uncovered severe deficiencies and lapses in the NASA mind set, design flaws, and dereliction in monitoring contract work, not to mention the cover-up efforts after the fact.
The Wikipedia piece is worth the read.
Unnoticed, by intent...a male, and a white guy as well...
Or to paraphrase what one of high school teachers once said about Neil Armstrong, "A thousand years from now when students pick up their history books and the entire 20th century is reduced to one or two pages, Neil Armstrong being the first man on the moon will be what they read learn our time."
I assume this is a rhetorical question.
78 missions over Korea for a total of 121 hours in the air. He received the Air Medal for 20 combat missions, a Gold Star for the next 20, and the Korean Service Medal and Engagement Star.
Master of science degree in aeronautical engineering.
Professor of aeronautical engineering Purdue University.
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy
The Sylvanus Thayer Award
The Collier Trophy from the National Aeronautics Association
Congressional Gold Medal.
The lunar crater Armstrong, 31 mi (50 km) from the Apollo 11 landing site, and asteroid 6469 Armstrong[133] are named in his honor.
HE WALKED ON THE FREAK'N MOON!
WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE!
Treating his death as a sidebar, as a trivial foot note, absolutely disgusts me to the point of vomiting in my throat.
Any leader of our nation who had an once of character and respect would go on national television and pay tribute to the greatest American to ever live and declare a national day of mourning, propose a plan to send man to Mars with in the next decade and remind us all that it is not what the nation can do for you, it's about what you can do for your nation.
I am so enraged, disappointed, and designedly disgusted with today's culture of irresponsible, underachieving and mentally disabled gurly-men who are shaping and controlling the minds of our future generations.
I mourn for Neil Armstrong.
I mourn for our nation.
I mourn for our children.
I mourn for our greatness. I mourn for our freedom and our Republic.
I've heard two lunar astronauts (Collins and Cernan) speak in person. Both of them went out of their way to emphasize that they got the PR because their skiils and training enabled them to sit at the sharp end of the rocket, but that there were thousands of others who contributed every bit as much as the astronauts did.
That's true. And their may have been other Europeans before them. But they weren't robust enough to project themselves onto the New World. We are the cultural descendents of Columbus, not Ericson.
Unfortunately I think that's a lot of it. Armstrong wasn't a minority, a women or gay. He wasn't an outspoken liberal, he didn't push a "cause" such as global warming or gay rights and by all accounts he was publicly apolitical and refused to endorse a candidate from any party. In other words, he just didn't fit the narrative of the modern "hero" as defined by the media.
Crackers on the moon rank right up there.
I wonder if stomping around on the moon was an especially heinous blasphemy for the moongod worshipers. After all, twelve crackers have walked on the moon, all Americans.
FUBO
Neil Armstrong needed a billion dollar rocket to get as high as the moon...Whitney Houston only need a few grams of crack.
It would be interesting to compare and contrast with the media’s treatment of Sally Ride’s recent passing.
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