And yet this picture captures it all! no words needed.
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Post by: NightWolve on August 25, 2012, 03:48:04 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong
Yeap, learned about it from my email news feature. RIP.
Well, now he's set foot on another noteworthy destination! The grave and what happens after... ;)
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Post by: Deletion on August 25, 2012, 04:33:30 PM
Inspired by that historic day...
The Sundays - Monochrome
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Post by: Joe Redifer on August 25, 2012, 05:57:11 PM
Surprised and sad that Neil is gone, but we all have to go sometime. I wish I could do what he did. I don't need to be the first but damn I'd like to set foot on something that's not Earth.
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Post by: HercTNT on August 25, 2012, 08:14:15 PM
agreed. i have been following the mars rover landing, would really love to be standing next to it seeing mars with my own eyes. i'm sad to see neil go.
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Post by: RegalSin on August 28, 2012, 01:19:14 AM
I think Neil Armstrong said that he was a parrot, in all of this. You know just read his lines, and did the space hop kinda thing.
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Post by: turboswimbz on August 28, 2012, 02:36:06 AM
More or less he was. He has a great back story. He was actually chosen to be the leader and go out first becuase they thought he would do just that, and that he wouldn't get a huge ego afterwards. Although the words he spoke were of his own creation. But in the grand scheme of things Apollo 11 had no mission other than to land make a few photo ops, plant a flag, and return. It was strickly to get there first and get back safely. All of the acutal moon research and exploring came in later apollo missions.
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Post by: futureman2000 on August 28, 2012, 03:31:47 AM
I'm pretty sure the events of Military Madness would never have occurred without that initial moon landing.
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Post by: RegalSin on August 28, 2012, 03:49:08 AM
If ti actually occurred.
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Post by: esteban on August 28, 2012, 06:43:31 AM