Ping.
“said it was “sad” that the current US government’s ambitions for Nasa were so reduced compared with the achievements of the 1960s.”
All the fault of those darn Russians. If they had kept making progress and headed towards Mars, we would have spent whatever it took to get there first. Once it was clear we had them beat, the money and the interest dried up (in that order).
Guy’s a rock.
-Rex
Kennedy’s vision: To go to the moon
Obama’s vision: To take down “millionaires and billionaires” and America along with them
It’s a damn shame that Armstrong and America must witness Obama gutting our space program, abolishing the Space Shuttle and outsourcing our space travel to the Russians.
And a foreigner from Kenya ended Nasa.
A true American hero, but I am glad that we are getting out of the space business, it isn’t in the US Constitution for us to do this, so it needs to be turned over to the free market to explore space.
I watched him give a speech, I think it was at the Smithsonian, a couple of years ago. Aldrin and Collins also spoke. One of the coolest things I’ve seen.
I don’t like hero worship. Too much of it these days.
But, this guy is an American hero and icon.
It took someone like Obama to make this guy speak out.
In the end, Armstrong’s reticence to speak about his experiences made him a poor choice for being the first man on the moon. He was in a unique position to advocate for spaceflight and NASA, but didn’t do so. Aldrin would’ve been a better choice.
That said, I’m glad the gov’t is getting out of manned spaceflight. Until someone proves Einstein wrong by creating something that can go faster than the speed of light, a manned spacecraft won’t leave the solar system. We’re probably not even going to make it past the asteroid belt.
It is predominately purple and grey.....the shade of grey chosen to match the sample of lunar rock brought home from the moon.
I always think of how he flubbed his first words on the lunar surface.
“One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” makes no sense. He meant to say “for a man”.
” ......said Armstrong. “It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.”
I couldn’t agree with him more.
Obama is a dream killer.
Contrast the inspiration to do great things given to millions of young kids by the NASA astronauts with Obama’s “Julia” who looks to the government to do everything for her.
Wapak is about 40 miles from me, and every kid in our grade school goes to see the Armstrong Museum on a school field trip in the 5th or 6th Grade. I think I still have the LEM floaty pen I bought there. :)
Is there any mention of whether Alex Malley, chief executive of Certified Practicing Accountants of Australia, told Neil that his chat was for publication?
Mr. Armstrong is a great guy. I had the privilege of being his body-guard at the grand opening of Cincinnati’s Riverbend Ampitheatre on July 4, 1984. Ella Fitzgerald and the Cincinnati Pops were the attraction and Mr. Armstrong read the Pledge of Allegiance during the finale while the Pops played the 1812 Overture.
He still lives in here in Cincinnati. I know exactly where, but I can’t tell you.
Yes it advanced technology.
But it lived up to what the US is all about. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
It instilled Pride in America. It showed the world that we were the best.
And it proved to the USSR that we were better than them. They never put a man on the Moon. They didn't have the ability. If they did don't you think they would have? Too show the world that they were just as good as the US?
They gave up on it. Just as they gave up when Reagan started Star Wars.
Yeah they put that trash can in space they call Soyuz. Yeah I want to spend 6 months in that shitehole.
Ed
