Neil Armstrong dies, age 82.

[Slavik]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9499759/Neil-Armstrong-US-astronaut-dies-aged-82.html

Think the article sums it up well, as long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will go down in them.

I think more than a few people can say that they probably viewed him as one of their childhood heroes.

Rest in Peace.

 

[Brent W]

Sad day. He was at least alive to see Curiosity do its thing. Hope we can go back in our history and get the excitement we had in the 1960's, in regards to NASA and our universe, back.

My favorite quote about him today:

Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) was not entirely human. He was the spiritual repository of our spacefaring dreams & ambitions. In death, a little bit of us all dies with him. Farewell my friend. And now, perhaps more than ever, I bid you godspeed. -Neil deGrasse Tyson

http://www.facebook.com/neiltyson/posts/4482809467879

 

[kkm323]

RIP Neil Armstrong, I was truly shocked by the news

 

[Jaxel]

Not shocked. Cancer.

 

[imlps]

My birthday is the same day as his. RIP

 

[Carlos]

This came to me as surprise. I knew he would be old by now, but eh. I didn't realize he was battling cancer, or is that old.

 

[Adam Howard]

Very disappointing. We're soon going to be out of important people

 

[mike os]

RIP Neil.... the real inventor of the Moonwalk

 

[Gabby]

I just read this. I'm so sad. Seems like an era went with him.

 

[captainslater]

The next flying things of NASA (like the Space Shuttles in the 70s) should be named "Enterprise" and "Armstrong-class".

Yeah, I'm a Trekker