What's sad is that we didn't yet returned to the moon, and he won't live to see it.
He waited until we got to Mars...
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#13With no plans to go to the moon again, we will soon be out of living moon-walkers.
xkcd ran the numbers: http://xkcd.com/893/
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#14He did get to see the next phase of space flight, with the SpaceX launch, the first successful private spaceflights. The future is bright with the expanded private interest in it.
He was pretty critical of SpaceX, though, and of NASA's new strategy of outsourcing space launches.
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#15The article currently is just a stub. I imagine this is related to the heart bypass surgery he underwent a couple of weeks ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185898/Neil-Armstro...
It looks like it's true :( More informative article here: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/neil-armstrong-man-moon-dea...
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#16What's sad is that we didn't yet returned to the moon, and he won't live to see it.
There have been 13 moon walks since the Apollo 11 mission in which he was the first to walk on the moon, spanning 5 missions from 1969-1972, FYI. He was the first, but definitely not the last.
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#17He did get to see the next phase of space flight, with the SpaceX launch, the first successful private spaceflights. The future is bright with the expanded private interest in it.
And publicly expressed his disapproval of it. The future may be bright, but I suspect Mr. Armstrong missed the future he would've wanted.
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#18Black bar?
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#19Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) RIP.
I hope we will return to the Moon or better go to Mars before the last Apollo astronaut has died.