[lonestar]

I met Neil Armstrong when he was first chosen as an astronaut. The astronaut's secretary lived in my apt. complex and they would come by to pick up or leave stuff with her when they flew in and out of town.

The day he came over we had moved from the pool to her living room. She introduced everybody and told us after he left that he was going to be the first man to step on the moon. It was 6 years later that he did. It always amazed me that NASA had planned that far a head.

Once my next door neighbor almost ran over Scott Carpenter pulling into the parking lot.

[wolfpat]

You’re lucky to have met them.

And BTW, that secretary must have been a prophet. At the time she told you that, Armstrong wasn’t planned to be the first to set foot on the moon. IIRC, it was supposed to be Collins on a different mission. But the Apollo 1 disaster rearranged the schedules.

[Nik Naym]

“Once my next door neighbor almost ran over Scott Carpenter pulling into the parking lot. “

Let me guess: Carpenter was sight seeing and not paying attention to where he was going at the time?