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The First Man To Enter The Moon Has Died At 82yrs by seunlayi(m): 8:14pm On Aug 25, 2012 |
Neil Amstrong, the first man to enter the mon has died at the age of 82 yrs old. kgmi.com/pages/14076920.php?contentType=4&contentId=11306324 |
Re: The First Man To Enter The Moon Has Died At 82yrs by seunlayi(m): 8:42pm On Aug 25, 2012 |
He died after undergoing a heart bypass surgery earlier this month |
Re: The First Man To Enter The Moon Has Died At 82yrs by seunlayi(m): 9:16pm On Aug 25, 2012 |
Neil Armstrong, the astronaut who marked an epochal achievement in exploration with “one small step” from the Apollo 11 lunar module on July 20, 1969, becoming the first person to walk on the moon, has died at 82. The family announced the death in a statement Saturday but did not disclose when or where he died. They attributed it to “complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures.” A taciturn engineer and test pilot who was never at ease with his fame, Mr. Armstrong was among the most heroized Americans of the 1960s Cold War space race. Twelve years after the Soviet Sputnik satellite reached space first, deeply alarming U.S. officials, and after President John F. Kennedy in 1961 declared it a national priority to land an American on the moon “before this decade is out,” Mr. Armstrong, a former Navy fighter pilot, commanded the NASA crew that finished the job. The crew’s trip to the moon — particularly the hair-raising final descent from lunar orbit to the treacherous surface — was history’s boldest feat of aviation. Yet what the experience meant to him, what he thought of it all on an emotional level, he mostly kept to himself. Like his boyhood idol, transatlantic aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, Mr. Armstrong learned how uncomfortable the intrusion of global acclaim can be. And just as Lindbergh had done, he eventually shied from the public and avoided the popular media. In time, he became almost mythical. Mr. Armstrong was “exceedingly circumspect” from a young age, and the glare of international attention “just deepened a personality trait that he already had in spades,” said his authorized biographer, James R. Hansen, a former NASA historian. |
Re: The First Man To Enter The Moon Has Died At 82yrs by excondido(m): 10:04pm On Aug 25, 2012 |
what a great 'feet' to be the 1st man to land and walk in another heavenly body. |
Re: The First Man To Enter The Moon Has Died At 82yrs by Sunofgod(m): 10:51pm On Aug 25, 2012 |
excondido: what a great 'feet' to be the 1st man to land and walk in another heavenly body. It was staged - the guy no go anywhere! If the US went to the moon, why did they never return? The footage na staged event! |
Re: The First Man To Enter The Moon Has Died At 82yrs by excondido(m): 7:42pm On Aug 27, 2012 |
Sun of god: in ur dreams! |
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