Neil Armstrong's Most Significant Steps Weren't On the Moon

Townhall ^ | Jul 15, 2019 | Jonathan Feldstein

[CondoleezzaProtege]

More than two decades after his first moon walk, Armstrong visited Israel where he didn’t chart a new path, but followed an old one.

In 1994 he was brought to a place in the Old City of Jerusalem and asked Meir Ben-Dov, his host and noted archeologist, if Jesus himself actually would have walked there.

“I told him, ‘Look, Jesus was a Jew,'” recalled Ben-Dov. “These are the steps that lead to the Temple, so he must have walked here many times.”

Armstrong asked if these were the original steps, and Ben-Dov said that they were.

“So Jesus stepped right here?” asked Armstrong. “That’s right,” answered Ben-Dov.

“I have to tell you,” Armstrong said to the Israeli archaeologist, “I am more excited stepping on these stones than I was stepping on the moon.”

[Ann Archy]

COOL!!! A friend used to work for him at UC and he was a wonderful, humble man.

[Steely Tom]

There's a wonderful video on YT of several Apollo astronauts, along with several of the management-level engineers who worked on the Apollo command and LM systems, in a panel discussion on the subject of the technical details of the Apollo missions.

At the end, there are questions from the audience. One of the students is a relatively young kid, and he asks "do you think I'll ever be able to go to the moon?"

There's a murmur from the audience, and some off-mike back-and-forth between the panel members. Finally, they hand the mike to Neil Armstrong, who says: "when I was your age, I didn't know that I'd go to the moon."

Huge applause, and that's where the video ends.

[Steely Tom]

Forgot to mention, the event shown in the video took place at MIT.

[shanover]

Not many things anymore get me choked up with extreme pride for our great country anymore but this is one of those times. I am going to try to watch as much as I can. We landed on the Moon a month after I was born.

[Oscar in Batangas]

“”“I am more excited stepping on these stones than I was stepping on the moon.”””

I know just what he meant. There is a ‘special’ connection with Jesus when you can be in the various parts of the Holy Land where His feet most likely trod.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[left that other site]

I know the feeling. I walked upon those same steps in 1984.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I thought you might appreciate this article. ;-)

[left that other site]

I did. Thank you for the ping! :-)

[CJ Wolf]

Happy belated 50th.

[fieldmarshaldj]

You’re welcome. :-)

[foreverfree]

bump

[xrmusn]

Which one had the coded message for his boyhood next door neighbor who had once told him someone would be ‘on the moon’ before he was successful or whatever???