Apr 01
Neil Armstrong
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Dec 30
We all know the line, but what about the story behind it? Neil Armstrong was always keen on telling folks that he’d thought up the historical words after landing on the moon, but before the walk. That is to say, relatively off-the-cuff. A new documentary tells a slightly different story. More »
Sep 14
Neil Armstrong. The first man on the moon. American hero. American legend. Buried at sea, this is how NASA remembers him. Watch it yourself and see how he touched everybody’s life and became the ultimate American. [NASA] More »
Sep 10
Sadly, You Will Not Be Able to Visit Neil Armstrong’s Grave [Neil Armstrong]
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Neil Armstrong, America’s greatest and most reluctant hero, is not going to have a grave. He’s going to be buried at sea. More »
Aug 27
He was the first man to walk on the Moon, but Neil Armstrong didn’t have any good photos to prove it. He had the camera most of the time, so it was Aldrin who got all the awesome shots. Sure—he was on grainy TV and reflected on Buzz’s visor but—except for his footprint—there were no cool shots of Neil. More »
Aug 25
It’s a story that we hoped we’d never have to report. Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on Earth’s Moon, has died at the age of 82 after complications from heart surgery three weeks earlier. His greatest accomplishment very nearly speaks for itself — along with help from fellow NASA astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, he changed the landscape of space exploration through a set of footprints. It’s still important to stress his accomplishments both before and after the historic Apollo 11 flight, though. He was instrumental to the Gemini and X-series test programs in the years before Apollo, and followed his moonshot with roles in teaching aerospace engineering as well as investigating the Apollo 13 and Space Shuttle Challenger incidents. What more can we say? Although he only spent a very small portion of his life beyond Earth’s atmosphere, he’s still widely considered the greatest space hero in the US, if not the world, and inspired a whole generation of astronauts. We’ll miss him.
[Image credit: NASA Apollo Archive]
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Aug 25
Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11 and the first man to ever set foot on the moon, died to today at age 82 due to complications from his heart surgery three weeks prior. More »
Jul 20
The Groundbreaking Camera That Captured Man’s First Steps on the Moon [Past Perfect]
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On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. This unassuming, metal box was actually the Westinghouse Apollo Lunar Television Camera that broadcasted his fateful first steps to millions of viewers across the world. More »
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