Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, has died at age 82, NBC News has learned

Twitter | 08/25/12 | Kevin Davis

[KevinDavis]

Saw this on Twitter.. But is true Neil Armstrong has died..

[Nowhere Man]

I know they kept the Apollo 1 designation as a memorial to the lost crew, and Apollos 4 and 6 were unmanned tests of the Saturn 5. Apollo 5 was the unmanned test of the LM in Earth orbit. But what flights were Apollos 2 and 3?

I did some research and Apollo 2 was launched July 5th, 1966 (three days before I was born) testing the S-IV tank to see how well it can cope with the stress of spaceflight. To confuse things more sometimes it was called Apollo 3 as well.

http://planetfacts.org/apollo-2-learning-the-effects-of-weightlessness/

Apollo 2 or 3?

Apollo 1 was originally called AS-204 but was changed to the former at the wish of Gus Grissom's widow.

[Erasmus]

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Let’s see. Where did I put those babywipes? Durnit!
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[chimera]

Thanks for that. First I’d heard of it. I note the website states that Apollo 3 was another test of the CM and guidance system.

[SunkenCiv]

Thx.

[rcrngroup]

When he said “That’s one small step for a man and one giant leap for mankind”, everyone in the room did not catch it because it was partly garbled, until Walter Cronkite repeated it about 15 seconds later.

Didn't Neil also make a Biblical quote, that the liberals & socialists & atheists are still fuming about? Didn't he say something like "In the beginning God created" or maybe it was "The heavens declare His handiwork" or something like this?

[rcrngroup]

...it seems like we are losing contact with the past as time goes on. Same with the WWII generation, we are losing those guys and gals faster now. Already, the last WWI veteran died last year so we lost contact with that one.

My elderly father is 95 yrs old, and a WWII navy vet as a lieutenant JG on a destroyer in the south Pacific, New Hebrides islands during the war. At a July 4 band concert this summer in our community park (Menomonie, WI) they had the veterans stand.... He was the only WWII vet who stood, out of about 6-700 or so band concert attendees including a number of vets from other wars subsequent to WWII. Quite a tear jerking experience when so many people came up to him and thanked him. The WWII remaining vets are a quickly diminishing group of vets.

And to Neil Armstrong....Rest in Peace!!!

[decal]

“Didn’t Neil also make a Biblical quote, that the liberals & socialists & atheists are still fuming about?”

The crew of Apollo VIII recited the first ten verses of Genesis on Christmas Eve while orbiting the moon.

[Ditto]

My local Gannett rag even had the story buried on page 10.

Top of front page, first article in my Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and rightly so.

[itssme]

Does anyone know if Neil Armstrong or any of the other astronauts talked in detail about the UFO’s that some did mention as seeing during their voyages? I saw photos of unexplained images from some of their voyages. Was anything written about these sightings?

Also, for more recent sightings,(I saw videos of sightings from June, July and some in August,2012), check out www.anonymousFO.com. The dates and locations of each video are provided.

Utterly fascinating and thought provoking!

[moose07]

For the curious:

"PGNCS generated unanticipated warnings during Apollo 11's lunar descent, with the AGC showing a 1201 alarm ("Executive overflow - no vacant areas") and a 1202 alarm ("Executive overflow - no core sets"). The cause was a rapid, steady stream of spurious cycle steals from the rendezvous radar, intentionally left on standby during the descent in case it was needed for an abort.

wiki link

Neil remembered those codes from memory.
I struggle with a shopping list.
"What a guy" Rest in peace...

[jboot]

"1202"

Steve Bales, right? The Fourth hero of the moon landing.

Funny thing was that George Tindall (or one of the other senior engineers) had predicted that those alarms were going to occur and disrupt the landing way back in '65 or so, just from examining the specs of the LEM. But his findings weren't in any of the material distributed to the guys in the Trench and Bales had to figure it out on his own...in less than a minute.

[jboot]

Google “Operation Highwater” for lots of informaton about pre-Apollo 4 launches. It was actually a pretty cool set of experiments.

[jboot]

Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14) and Gordon Cooper (Mercury-Atlas 9, Gemini 5) have both spoken openly of UFO sightings. There is material attributed to both of them around the internet. Mitchell was a UFO “true believer” before he came to NASA. Although I don’t disbelieve that he “saw what he saw,” he’s not exactly an unbiased witness. Cooper’s account struck me as more thought-provoking. Unfortunately, he passed away some time ago. There are other UFO stories, but most of them are second or third hand.

[donaldo]

RIP Neil Armstrong! I never think of our Apollo astronauts without thinking of that mighty Saturn V and those massive F-1 engines. I think it’s still the most powerful engine ever built, 160,000,000 horsepower, seven and a half million lbs. of thrust. Those F-1’s (five in all) collectively guzzled propellants at the rate 15 tons per second. That’s 30,000 lbs. per second. The early combustion stability problems were immense. They were eventually solved after many many hours by copper baffles. I’m awed at that power. That rocket was as large as a Navy destoyer and about 360’ tall. It weighed in excess of 6,000,000 lbs. at lift off. Those F-1’s accelerated that mass to well over 5,000 mph in a little over two minutes. I’ll never understand how the thrust structure of that rocket held up under that power, let alone the bell nozzles of the engines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-1_(rocket_engine)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Yd-GxJ_QM

A little long, but it gives you an idea of the immense power those five F-1s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3sVuFjJlp4&feature=related

[Monorprise]

At what kind of party did you meet Neil Armstrong?

[VaRepublican]

Got nothing polictical, RIP Neil, you were in fact “the Man” and you will be missed.

[stylecouncilor]

That was Buzz Aldrin. It was a party in Beverly HIlls that I just got to go to because I happened to know somebody who knew somebody lol.

[FlingWingFlyer]

His footprints will be here forever.

[Ditto]

Does anyone know if Neil Armstrong or any of the other astronauts talked in detail about the UFO’s...

Let's start with the acronym, UFO. That means Unidentified Flying Object. I see them every day. At 35 thousand feet, I don't know it they are a 737 or an Air Bus 360. They could be from the planet Vulcan... I don't have a clue. I guess that makes them UFOs

I do recall John Glenn's first orbital flight back in 1962. He reported seeing all these little 'gizmos" swirling around his window. Even laughing about them. Turns out, they were just part of the debris left over from the final stage separation when he went into orbit. They orbited with him.

The entire UFO thing drives me nuts. If they have the ability to travel many light years to get here;
1. Why have they never said hello?

2. How come we have never heard them on the electromagnetic spectrum (i.e. radio) --- And we have spent many millions of dollars listening for them hearing cosmos static hundreds and even thousands of light years in the past, and haven't heard a single peep of intelligent transmission even with networks of millions of computers analyzing those signals.

Kind of scary there that we might be alone in the local universe or at minimum, we're the first that has figured out how to broadcast in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Sorry, but I really get aggravated with the UFO crap. There is not a single shred of hard evidence to support that we have ever had a visitor. The hustlers who push it are just cashing in on the gullible.

[itssme]

Yes, I just found a website, www.syti.net/UFOsightings.html that lists the astronauts and their experiences with UFO’s. Having sighted a UFO in my own back yard a few years ago, I was interested in knowing what the astronauts knew. My late brother-in-law also had an encounter with a UFO as a pilot in the Strategic Air Command in the 50s. Fascinating reading.