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Engineer's Engineer
by James
August 25, 2012 | 0 comments
To me Neil Armstrong was a total Engineer, and it's this aspect of him that I like most and hope folks will appreciate. I hope that someone will make a film about him that will celebrate the man more than just the moon landing. I really like his NASA Oral History: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/ArmstrongNA_9-19-01.pdf My favorite photo of him is with the X-15: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/246076main_E60-6286_full.jpg ... more »
A toast to the memory of Neil Armstrong
by John Richardson
August 25, 2012 | 0 comments
(I originally posted this tribute to my blog at: http://behindthehedge.wordpress.com/2012/08/25/toast-to-the-memory-of-neil-armstrong/ )
I'd like to toast the memory of a man by all reports of a most excellent brilliance which was, remarkably, surpassed by his shy humility. A man who performed a feat beyond epic heroism. For those too young to remember, in July, 1969, Neil Armstrong and two companions climbed into what was effectively a Volkswagen beetle augmented by a computer with slightly less processing power than your toaster. Then he let some guy light up under him one of the bigger bombs humanity has ever created and flew that Beetle ... more »
Fly Me To The Moon...
by CoCo Podawiltz
August 25, 2012 | 0 comments
July 1969 was a very memorable time of my early childhood. I was 10yrs old, a young girl living in Florida, where my Dad was stationed in the USAF for a brief time. My family was preparing for his departure to Vietnam, for his one year tour of duty... scary times for us!
Living in Florida and being in the military, we were well aware of the Apollo program & its goal to land humans on the Moon. I was fascinated by their efforts & followed the few earlier Apollo missions into space. On the eve of the Apollo 11 ... more »
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