THE DEATH OF neil armstrong is being ignored nearly as much as was his later life, which is exactly what he wanted, and would have wanted. Armstrong, as great a hero as you're ever gonna find, deliberately led a low key life, beginning the moment he returned from the moon. And indeed he did go to and return from the moon, notwhthstanding current new age doctrine. He said he did, and that's good enough for anyone.
He abviously could have made a fortune off his achievement, movies, books, speeches, convention appearances and autographs, etc. He categorically refused to profit from his fame. Instead he discouraged it. When he found out that people were selling his autographs, he stopped giving them. Can you imagine anyone acting like that today?
When obama announced his cutting out the manned moon return and mars programs a couple of years ago, armstrong worte a letter to the president, vehemently expressing disagreement. But he didn't go on the internet, or the jerry springer show, attracting publicity for his cause of resuming the manned space program.
Somebody else oughta do it, right now. armstrong is right, obama is wrong, it says here.
rush limbaugh was talking, (as usual) about his excitement at the landing on the moon in 1969, when rush was eighteen. He was unable, however, to remember whether armstrong and aldrin had a rover to ride around in. That's OK rush, it was a long time ago. Incidentally, they didn't, nor did any of the others, and wouldn't it be great if we could go back, and do it up right?
Rush praised armstrong for refusing to profit from the moon landing. Shouldn't rush be chastising him for having missed opportunites for profiting from the free enterprise system?
Apolla eleven had the computer power of a pocket calculator, and every chance that the mission would fail, and result in the deaths of three astronauts. They were incredibly brave.
May the future of human space travel be a tribute to their legacy.
Bb
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