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Neil Armstrong, the first man to step on the moon, has passed on.Astronaut Neil Armstrong dies at 82[html][/html]
We are seeing the passing of an era and the crying shame of it is that he did not get to live to see the US return to the moon. He proved to be one of the most modest of the Apollo astronauts and a great man outside of a space suit as well. He will be missed.
That is interesting, isn't it? I'm not sure which of the Apollo missions was the last to reach the moon, but it was sometimes during the missions of the late-60s/early-70s. I wonder what Neil Armstrong thought of our inability or lack of desire to return to the moon after all these decades.In honor of this thread, I am digging up some of these old threads on space exploration:The new and exciting field of....space archaeology?Apollo moon theories and responsesReactions of the Apollo 8 mission in 1968 Early conception of space exploration
Apollo 17 in 1972 was the last moon mission with Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt going down to the surface, I forget who the mission commander that stayed in the Apollo Capsule was. Armstring did not speak out much but he did speak out vociferously a few years ago when the Constellation program was killed. He was upset that America seemed to be giving up on maned space exploration.
