Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dies at 82
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In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 photo, Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong speaks at a celebration dinner honoring John Glenn's 50th anniversary of his historic flight aboard the Mercury program's Friendship 7 capsule. (Photo: AP)
(The Blaze/AP) — Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has died at 82, NBC News reported.
Armstrong died following complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, a statement Saturday from his family said. The statement did not say where he died.
ABC News adds:
On July 20, 1969, half a billion people — a sixth of the world’s population at the time — watched a ghostly black-and-white television image as Armstrong backed down the ladder of the lunar landing ship Eagle, planted his left foot on the moon’s surface, and said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Twenty minutes later his crewmate, Buzz Aldrin, joined him, and the world watched as the men spent the next two hours bounding around in the moon’s light gravity, taking rock samples, setting up experiments, and taking now-iconic photographs.
“Isn’t this fun?” Armstrong said over his radio link to Aldrin. The third member of the Apollo 11 crew, Michael L. Collins, orbited 60 miles overhead in the mission’s command ship, Columbia. President Richard Nixon called their eight-day trip to the moon “the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.”
July 20, 1969: Astronauts Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin, the first men to land on the moon. (Photo: AP)
“The sights were simply magnificent, beyond any visual experience that I had ever been exposed to,” Armstrong once said of the experience.
The moonwalk marked America’s victory in the Cold War space race that began Oct. 4, 1957, with the launch of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world.
Although he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA’s forerunner and an astronaut, Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamor of the space program.
“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer,” he said in February 2000 in one of his rare public appearances. “And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession.”
ABC has video of the historic event:
The 1969 landing met an audacious deadline that President Kennedy had set in May 1961, shortly after Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin had orbited the Earth and beaten the U.S. into space the previous month.)
“I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,” Kennedy had said. “No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important to the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”
The end-of-decade goal was met with more than five months to spare. “Houston: Tranquility Base here,” Armstrong radioed after the spacecraft settled onto the moon. “The Eagle has landed.”
“Roger, Tranquility,” the Houston staffer radioed back. “We copy you on the ground. You’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot.”
Watch Armstrong reminisce about the landing with Walter Cronkite:
A man who kept away from cameras, Armstrong went public in 2010 with his concerns about President Barack Obama’s space policy that shifted attention away from a return to the moon. He testified before Congress and in an email to The Associated Press, Armstrong said he had “substantial reservations,” and along with more than two dozen Apollo-era veterans, signed a letter calling the plan a “misguided proposal that forces NASA out of human space operations for the foreseeable future.”
“I think we‘re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges,” Armstrong once explained. “It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul…We’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.”
In 1994, he urged America to continue exploring.
“There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers…There are places to go beyond belief.”
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Comments (208)
woodyee
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:05pmTo infinity and beyond!
Rest in peace.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:47pmMaybe you should change the name from [The Blaze] to [Almost the Blaze]. Because it’s no where close to being a Burning Bush or a Pillar of Fire.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:51pmSee the way people are with how dense they are, and not liking to even entertain the truth puts them all in the Gog Magog category, and is the epitome of why God has to wrought so much destruction with fire coming down out of Heaven from God.
Report Post »Master_and_Commander
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:12pmwatersrpeople, get off the internet.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:22pmLOL waters. Such an obvious troll.
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:38pm@Watersrpeople
Report Post »Wow! You have to be so negative all the time. Must be a very unhappy progressive communist/marxist who has lost his sanity and can’t figure out how to make everyone as sad as you are.
This was a GREAT man, who did an extra-extrodinary thing. Let him rest in piece and allow us to enjoy our day without your hatred being spewed across this GREAT nation.
We know who you are!
The-Monk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:59pmWatersRpeople is Timmy. Remember ItsJustTim?
Same person so “just” call him Timmy for now on.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:45pmwatersRpeople…
Report Post »Anyone else envisioning a dude in a bathrobe and fuzzy slippers who has shaved all his body hair and talks to his mashed potatoes for spiritual guidance? I suspect this being has toyed with severe self-mutilation and is possible awaiting some Great Conjunction to catch the next comet to his version of Ork. Nanoo, nanoo, ya silly bastard!
ERP
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:35pm@watersRpeople
Hey you! Who lit the fuse on your tampon?
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:39pmI ticks me off that ABC News is saying that Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind.” He didn’t say that, he said “That’s one small step for MAN, one giant leap for mankind.”
There was no “A” before “man”. I heard it live, sitting in front of my TV in 1969.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:19pmFair Winds and Following Seas to you Sir!
Its sad! Most kids today have no idea who he is. They don’t teach kids today about true American pioneers like Mr. Neil Armstrong. They teach only how so many mundane things minorities achieved to make everyone feel equal and the same. We will remember you always Sir!
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 11:12pmThe stunning irony of Obama & Co. praising Armstrong, is that today a war vet like Armstrong would be much more likely to be placed on a DHS terrorist watch list and/or committed to a mental institution, rather than advancing all of humanity.
I wonder how many current vets who might have made great discoveries or otherwise massively benefited all humanity were prevented from doing so by being labeled by DHS as a “possible terrorist threat” and/or tossed into a mental institution for daring to speak their minds. There are costs to this sort of government tyranny that may ultimately doom us not just as a free nation, but as a species.
There may be some cataclysmic catastrophe in our near future that we as a species will not survive because we threw the one person that could solve it into a mental ward and fried his brain with drugs because DHS is scared of opinionated veterans.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 11:16pmEverybody wanted to be an astronaut then… My brother was one for Halloween. Do they even make astronaut Halloween costumes anymore?
Of course, we all played cowboys & Indians back then.
I must be old…
Rest in peace, Mr Armstrong!
Report Post »black9897
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 11:23pmOne small loss for man, one giant loss for mankind.
Report Post »Fatheroftwo
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:24amI learned to count, Backwards, while watching these incredible men pioneer space flight! From Mercury to Gemini to Apollo each and everyone of these individuals are awesome in their achievements and Mr. Armstrong was a leader among equals! God speed him on his journey into the next phase of existence!
Report Post »SquareHead
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:03amLike Toy Story and Santa Claus, the Apollo missions to are Fake. I feel like someone breaking telling a 4 yr old that there is no tooth fairy! Do some minor research for yourself and you will see.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5w0pm24ic&feature=youtube_gdata_player
We Never Went to the Moon…
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 2:16am@SQUAREHEAD
I cannot accept that theory.
There are way too many people involved over way too long a time.
Report Post »nzkiwi
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 5:19amJust going slightly to one side, here…
I have often wondered what Sam Houston would have thought if he knew that his name would be the first word spoken on the moon…
As another boy who watched the landing in awe, it is with great sadness that I saw the headline on our news. In our family we had only had a television for a few years before this, and to my young eyes the world seemed full of wonder.
His passing was inevitable, of course, but so very sad.
One can only hope the inspirational dreams of people like JFK and Armstrong will appear in a younger person who will lead the human race into giant leaps once again.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:38amHi MONK, LOL, That is what I have been saying all along about WATERSPORTS
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:41amSQUAREHEAD, proof that the Flat Earth Society still exists.
Report Post »WhatsThatAgain
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 10:15amHey watersrpeople, maybe you should change your name to wetblanket.
Report Post »swamp_donkey
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 1:17pmhe attended school on the taxpayer dime through the g.i bill and was truly a product of american exceptionalism in todays gop world he would be thrown out with the trash , democrats dream of going to the moon conservatives dream of going to iraq
Report Post »GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:41pmIn support of Squarehead, I believe Jay Weidner did a great job on exposing Stanly Kubrick’s direct involvement in “the moon shoot”: vimeo.com/34039692
Report Post »Here is the follow up 2K1 spc odessy on utube: http://youtu.be/hGrkFLSNrNA
Pretty hard to deny, and just found this comment posted in ref to Toy Story hence the OP use a buzz light yr catch phrase.
EU posted on vimeo “Just found something really interesting and I haven’t seen anyone identify it yet. Check out the original TOY STORY movie. There is a scene where BUZZ LIGHTYEAR realizes that he is just a toy and that he can’t fly. In the scene, is the same carpet shown in THE SHINING. Again, the carpet is the same and he realizes that he has been fooled, he can’t fly out the window (i.e. to the moon) and the whole thing is a sham. Seriously, check this out.”
ERP
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:36am@black9897
Bravo!
Well Said
Report Post »trtmntdude
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 8:22amWhy are we giving a commenting buffoon(s) one second of time? This article is about a great pioneer and that is where our comments should be focused. Godspeed, Mr. Armstrong. You will forever be in our hearts.
Report Post »stinkybisquit
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:04pmA true childhood, and adult, hero. You used to be able to wave at him on his tractor, when he lived in Warren County. My favorite story: after a farming accident, to the doctor after not being able to help him: “We can send me to the moon, but you can’t reattach my finger!”
Report Post »Elena2010
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:59pmDidn’t they send him via helo to Louisville which was pioneering in reattachments to try there?
BTW, Armstrong was USAF pilot not Navy. When he joined NASA he was a civilian. Alan Shepard was Navy as were Schirra and Carpenter. USAF: Grissom, Cooper, Slayton. The lone Marine was Glenn. Armstrong was part of the second class of astronauts for Gemini. He saved his mission fm death when the bird started to spin uncontrollably. His firing the retros stopped the death spin and mission. They returned safely.
Later in LM testing, he was nearly killed when the “flying bed-frame” went out of control. He ejected w/o any time to spare.
Fair Winds and Following Seas, Neil Armstrong!
Report Post »MontaraMissileMan
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:04pmNo, Armstrong was a Navy pilot he started his service in 1949 and exited active duty in 1952, maintaining his presence in the Reserve until retiring his commission in 1960. He saw action as part of a fighter squadron during the Korean war. The Navy paid for his college. He’s a naval aviator, and all us sailors are glad to have him.
(basic info all taken from his biography and posted on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong)
Report Post »johnVMFA122
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:20pm@Elana2010…
Neil was a Naval Aviator, this comes from NASA’s own website and in the statement of his passing from the family.
Report Post »Chris
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:55amActually, I believe that he went to work for NACA’s Lewis Laboratory in Cleveland. NACA became a part of the newly created NASA in 1958. Armstrong He even flew the X-15 at one point in his career.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:47amI saw some footage of a test flight where Armstrong was flying this test lander where he was standing up on the thing. It looked to be terrifying but he was flying it. He had to eject out of it and then it crashed. Neil Armstrong was a very brave man. One of our greatest heros. He makes the bums in DC look like dog crap by comparison.
Report Post »Sayyadina
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:04pmGodspeed Neil Armstrong
ad astra per aspera.
Report Post »Shellback
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:46pmGrowing up in Kansas, I love the motto. People often say where were you at when such-and-such happened. I was at a lake listening the coverage on AM radio when I was a young boy. Very exciting and you should have heard the whoop and cheers when the stepped on the moon. God speed Neil. Hope to see you on the other side.
Report Post »DEFCON4
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:03pmMystery Creates Wonder and Wonder is the Basis of Man’s Desire to Understand.
Report Post »* Niel Armstrong
JasonGoldtrap
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:00pmAt the American Lunar Colony, 200 gathered to pray and remember Neil Armstrong. ***from the year 2012 as it was SUPPOSED TO BE”
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:09pmYes. Sad how things have NOT turned out.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:30pmWhen we take back America …..
Rest in Peace .. That’s one giant step for Neil Armstrong ..the one we all someday will take.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:10pmDitto.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:47pmUntil we can replicate (near Earth levels of) gravity reliably anything beyond the moon is a pipe dream.
That said I remember that summer of 69 as I sat glued to the TV transfixed by the pictures and video being beamed back to Earth as Cronkite smiling from ear to ear and rubbing his hands (like a little kid) stood by as the hatch opened on the Eagle lunar craft….what a memory and what an achievement. The Mercury 7 should be credited as much as Armstrong….RIP Niel … now he can have a beer with Virgil, Roger and Ed !!!!
Report Post »randy
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:51pmBoy!
They sure don’t make them like him anymore.
God Bless and Godspeed Mr. Armstrong!
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 11:00pmAmen Jason. That‘s where we’re supposed to be right now. The “if we can land a man on the moon, we can loot our treasury for this/that/other socialist program” crap ended that dream in the 1970′s.
Godspeed Mr. Armstrong, you are an inspiration to us all. It’s fitting that the first man on the moon is American. You are among the most notable of men in history. I’d wish you a good journey to heaven, but you’re likely already in orbit about it and ready to land.
Well done sir. Well done.
Report Post »salvawhoray
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:59pmMan cannot survive going through the Van Allen Belt.
Did you know that there are only two pictures of Armstrong on the fake moon?
What this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI3jiqZBmBw
Like the woman says “If they went to the Moon then why fake any of it”?
MontaraMissileMan
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:07pmWow dude, just go eff yourself, seriously. Not the time or place to do this.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:18pmsalvawhoray
Report Post »Sir, were you absent when class was passed out?
Incredulous321
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:19pmYou are a sad and offensive person to post this tripe on the day a great American has passed. Mr. Armstrong accomplished more in his life than you could in ten. Want to know how I know. He was a dreamer and a doer, a special blend of brains, talent, drive and upbringing. You on the other hand want to denegrate his memory just hours after his passing. You are pathetic, and people like you make me fear for this country. Saying Americans didn‘t walk on the moon because of the Van Allen Belt is like saying you didn’t potty train because the hole was too big and scary. In fact, I’d believe that first. Have some respect and keep your idiotic thoughts to yourself, at least for one day. The day an American legend has begun a new and more interesting journey. God Bless Mr. Neil Armstrong!
Report Post »Marengo Ohio Patriot
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:23pmIt’s a nice night for a walk in the Navada desert
Report Post »THE EQUALIZER
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:26pmA true example of the poor state of education in this country. RIP Mr. Armstrong!
Report Post »Cadcamtrainer
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:43pmYou are a jackass!
Report Post »Chris
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 6:53pmThere are, by my observation, three types of people that don’t believe that we went to the Moon.
Report Post »1) The ones that have seem somebody‘s explanation of why we couldn’t have done it and are too scientifically illiterate to understand that the explanations they hold to don’t hold water. These people are innocently ignorant.
2) People that know that the reasons that they give for why we couldn’t go to the moon are lies but use it to push their own agenda. These people are, in a word, liars.
3) People that believe that because the government says so, it didn’t happen. This is a relatively recent phenomenon, but it is a sign of intellectual laziness. It is easier to believe that everyone in government is lazy, a liar and/or corrupt than to realize that the government isn’t a monolith. Rather, it holds some of everything. Every part of the government has conservatives & liberals, believers & nonbelievers, lazy and hardworking. There is no way that you could keep a secret like this with that many people involved. I‘ve worked in and around NASA for the last 25 years and there really is something in the nature or scientists and engineers that won’t let a lie stand, at least on a technical issue. If the landings were faked, somebody (actually a lot of somebodies) wouldn’t be able to contain it, or themselves.
stumpy68
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:08pmYou sir are a moron
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 8:34pmMeh, this is why I came to this story. Just to see if any of Club Bigfoot would show up. And, as usual, this breed of clown never fails to make an appearance. We all know its not polite to challenge another person’s religion, so let’s tiptoe by while the truthers and grassy knoll folks have a heady debate on how Procter and Gamble are really a nefarious concern foreseen by Nostradamus.
Report Post »Bob_R_OathKeeper
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:12amSalva, you are one dumb S O B and sadly, anything good, attracts you pigs like flies to Obama.
Report Post »FatFreedom
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:22amSalvawhoray is right we never did go to the moon. I must admit it saddended me greatly when I came to that conclusion after doing allot of research. I still think that Neil Armstrong is a hero. He went along with the lies, from day one. He did it for our national security as we where in a space race against the Soviet’s at the time. The burdon that Neil had to walk with all the days since the supposed event, knowing it was just a hoax, and having all of us look up to him the way we did, is a lot for a patriot like Neil Armstrong to carry.
The success of the hoax was so great that most of you will never even look into all the info on like that proves that the Apollo missions was hoax. You would consider even looking into it as treason.
Neil Armstrong looks more guilty than happy in this 6 second clip taken from him after the Apollo misssion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V9HCj9zb3U&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
Though this is hardly a reason not to believe we went to the moon, but if you look into the life of Neil Armstrong, after the mission he became a recluse that never went in public and only spoke at the 25 year anivsersary a very cryptic message…
Short 7 min video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ZzFemBUJQ&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
Apollo Astronuts lying in an awkward way..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0VOlXLUH4&list=PL7219911842803520&index=12&feature=plpp_video
I will post more links…
Report Post »FatFreedom
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:33amContinuing with more links that proove that we NEVER WENT TO THE MOON. If someone can direct me where to go to get these links disprooven it would make me happy. When you tell someone that you dont’ beleive we went to the moon, you are sure to get allot of looks. Especially from anyone over 40 years old…
So I wish I could believe that we actually went to the moon. But the fact is that ones you have done the research you can’t go back. I did allot of research to disproove the claims about the hoax, but was not convinced, by the reasoning used. The fact is that Nasa does not try do disproove the claims. They will reference a couple of websites to go to that are run by independent person, and ones you get there get ready to spend hours going through endless pages to the place where they “proove” that the hoaxers theories are faulty, and then use a straw man argument, while ignoring the main proof that shows the whole thing was a hoax. The fact is that most people will not do that homework, and will stop when they get to myth busters doing a 20 min show on it, which was a real joke… Basically they where going to disproove that there are multiple light sources used in the photos taken, when they did not have a flash. So they built a model and used a light as the sun, and kept it 40 ft from a prop, when it should have been over a 180 miles away to represent the scale of between the sun and moon.
To be continued….
Report Post »FatFreedom
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 12:49am…..continuing:
I hope TheBlaze will post this, as I can’t see any of my posts here after I refresh the page???
Anyway here are some links to things that made me not believe that we went to the moon:
A short 10min clip with facts of inconsistencies in the photos from the moon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6MvcIs4OcQ&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520&index=4
Dark Mission 1 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5w0pm24ic&list=PL7219911842803520&index=1&feature=plpp_video
Dark Mission 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MalYSn_qIU4&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
The Chineese are faking their own missions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBL98p0wZ7g&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
Funny clip showing the astronauts getting pulled up by wires:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ciStUEZK-Y&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
Joe Rogan on radio going over some of the evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxumRRhVLuc&feature=BFa&list=PL7219911842803520
The fact is that NASA has lost all the files and original fottage from ALL of the Apollo missions!! Imagine anything that historic LOST!
I plead that you look at the links I have posted and do your own research. United States is still a great country, and our Founding Fathers came up wiht the best system of government ever tried. Just because we were lied to regarding the Apollo missions, does not mean that our nation is not great. But we should not follow blindly this Disney tale
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:01amWhere is Buzz Aldrin when you need him?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:45amMARENGO OHIO PATRIOT, We had a bit of overcast last night, but the moon was fairly clear. Took the dog for a walk and watched it for a while. My son’s birthday is 20 July.
Report Post »ThePostman
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:09amI know many of the astronauts, I worked with them for decades. It is not fake, I guarantee you.
Report Post »MontaraMissileMan
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 9:12am@FatFreedom, You don’t understand the science that goes into it and you cheapen the great accomplishments of this nation and humanity as a whole to say those things. Take your conspiracy garbage elsewhere. We landed on the moon, the evidence is there sitting on the moon and it consistently is shown to be possible with independent studies and examinations. You show ignorance of the basics of the science you claim to debunk.
Then you take to an article that speaks of the accomplishments of one of the greatest heroes of Mankind, a man who is able to accurately portray the accomplishments of humanity and what we can accomplish when we are allowed to be the best that we can all become, the very heart and soul of what our country was founded upon, and you say that everything the man and everyone of the thousands of people involved in the Apollo programs accomplished was a lie.
You, just like 9/11 truthers, birthers, and the myriad of other morons that infect our culture are part of why we’re going down the tubes as a nation. You willingly disparage one of our greatest heroes on his obituary. You can go suck the biggest bag of genitals. I’m ashamed that people like yourself are in my country.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:54pmYeah “great” reporting, NBC: http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2012/08/nbc-news-confuses-neil-young-who-is-alive-with-neil-armstrong-who-is-dead/
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:06pmThey have some top notch reporters working there. Obviously they don’t even know who the first man on the moon was. Those reporters probably didn’t even know we landed on the moon in 1969. They don’t teach that stuff in schools anymore. Now I’m sure if it came to knowing who the most popular rap artist is, these reporters would know that in a heartbeat.
Report Post »cja23
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:57pmWhy bother, the nets are truly useless, they can’t get anything right. Fact check everything they say or print.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:40pmJust another in a long list of NBC’s lack of professionalism. Why is NBC and MSNBC allowed to even continue to “report” (I use that term loosely with them) given their inability to not only be truthful but fact check their obvious lies and proof read their articles and reports? How much are they even paying their editors and producers there?
Report Post »Al J Zira
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:05pm@hifi74: That’s the problem. They probably did proof read it and no one knew the difference. It’s just a sad and unbelievably ridiculous affair over at MS/NBC. A once noble institution completely gone corrupt.
Report Post »shogun459
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:25pmWhat do you expect from a Network that STILL thinks Obama is the messiah.
Besides, NBC STILL wishes the Russians had beat us.
It’s not sloppy, it’s on purpose.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:53amJUSTPEACHY, Suppose we could offer a trade, Neil Young to get Neil Armstrong back.
Report Post »As far as NBC goes, this brings back memories of Estes Model Rocket engines in a truck gas tank. Fitting.
MCDAVE
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:51pmI was 9 yrs old and stayed up to watch the first man walk on the moon.Its a moment you never forget,,,Every kid wanted to be Like Neil Armstrong…God Speed. Neil Armstrong,an American hero and Legend.You will be missed but not forgotten.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:05pmYou made us proud
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 11:38pmThere’s more truth to your words than most know. He’ll never be forgotten, he’s the first man to step foot on a celestial body that is not earth. His prominence in history is far greater than warlords, politicians, generals or great businessmen. He’s at the top of the heap. Long after these united States of America have passed into history, Neil Armstrong’s name will live on, as will the name of the nation he came from that managed to put several people on the Moon, these united States of America.
Godspeed Mr. Armstrong.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 7:59amMCDAVE, I was a high school student, but away at a summer church camp that week. We had no TVs there, but I took a good sized radio that many of us gathered around and listened to that broadcast. I mentioned it above, but will say again how fascinated that I have always been that my son was born on 20 July.
Report Post »Ghost, you are so dead on. I only hope to live long enough to see us get back into real space exploration.
Seagal45
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:51pmRest in Peace, God Bless you! You truly stirred the imagination of a lot of people, mine included.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:50pmSorry to hear this. My heart goes out to his family and friends–as well as all of us. I well remember watching his walk on the moon. My dad made sure we watched it–said it was a historic event. He made America proud.
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:48pmThe first man on the moon, one small step for man, one giant step for the Great Society and Fiat while captive in Babylon.
Report Post »slindsley
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:47pmMSNBC Reported “Neil Young, first man to walk on moon, dead at 82″ Check it out before they change it…It is not surprising a news organization so far up Obama‘s butt would forget the importance of Armstrong’s accomplishments.
Report Post »justasurvivor
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:55pmThat truly encapsulates everything anyone needs to know about MSNBC, huh?
Report Post »db321
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:53pmI think Neil Young was the first man to walk onto the stage at Woodstock. And how can we forget – “4 dead in O’hio” or as Obama spells it O I H O. Great Music, but Young is no where near the man that Neil Armstrong was.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:00pm…
Does NBC do this stuff on purpose or are they really that stupid? NBC has now corrected it and noted it.
“By NBC News (Editor’s note: An early headline on this story briefly misstated Neil Armstrong’s name.)”
Report Post »http://tinyurl.com/9e722fo
watersRpeople
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:46pm82? Awe, they always are taken so young. He will be sadly missed even though he didn’t have the foggiest idea who I am.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:27pmNeither do I nor do I care.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:59pmI guess the idiots are out in force today…….Mr Armstrong deserves better IMHO. He was a model professional USN Officer/Aviator. Humble, intelligent, skilled , cool under extreme pressure and very down to Earth……we need a million more like him.
Report Post »doubletap
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 11:21pm@ Puddle Duck, I’ll take one like him in the White House and be happy.
Report Post »xfiler93
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:45pmshocking!! May GOD give comfort to his family!! A very special breed of man and human being has been lost. GODSPEED Neil!
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:45pmGod bless. You will be missed
Report Post »oldasdirt
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:39pmThe footprints he left on the surface of the moon my last an eternity.Gods speed M8.
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 10:53amOh don’t be get started with the carbon footprint on the moon.
Report Post »Man leaves all his trash on the moon with no intention to clean it up.
I’m disgusted.
watersRpeople
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:35pmThe average American has about no attention span – it’s probably gonna cost you your freedom.
Report Post »Z
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:32pmGod bless. Safe journey.
Report Post »db321
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 4:13pmNeil I think your first step on the Moon was nothing compared to your first step into Heaven. Well done good and faithful servant. Thank you for being such a great role model for the World. God Speed Neil.
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:32pmThis is a sad day, we have lost a great American Pioneer. God speed Mr. Armstrong, and may he guide you on the ultimate journey.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:30pmGoodbye my old friend. Thanks for the memories. : )
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 8:28amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDtWnCSsBSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSjbTN5JtL8&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg80HZsv_js&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drSqtw0Qywk&feature=related
Neil Armstrong, we salute you.
Report Post »justasurvivor
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:30pmGod bless you sir. You are a true American hero. I weep for your passing, but I pray you are flying in joy way beyond any mere moon.
Report Post »And I pray you didn’t die with a broken heart for what the manned space program has become.
tothepoint
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:35pmAmen. Obama told NASA their main goal is to make Muslims feel good about their accomplishments. So sad. Our scientists are now social workers.
Report Post »tothepoint
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:28pmGod bless you, Neil Armstrong, and those who love you. You are a real American hero.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:25pmRIP Neil. Thank you sir, and God bless.
Report Post »JasonGoldtrap
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:25pmThere was an age of heroes, men of renown. Weeks after Sally Ride passed away. Days after another Armstrong was wrongfully stripped of his awards. Sad. Acts 2:40.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:29pmYour spot on…
Report Post »TelepromoterNChief
Posted on August 26, 2012 at 10:55amTrue heroes like Obama get awards
Report Post »BallisticBob
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 3:25pmGodspeed
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 5:02pmDitto and Amen
Report Post »luxlife
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 9:12pmExactly!
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