RIP Neil Armstrong
Aug. 25th, 2012 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesJust seen the news reports that Neil Armstrong has died. Another little piece of living history has just slipped away.
It's 43 years since he first stepped out onto the lunar surface, one small step for a man. He was 82. There isn't that sense of regret there was a few weeks ago, when Sally Ride died far too young. But it's still another hero gone, another link broken.
He's gone, but his footprints will outlast all of us. Now there's a memorial for one man who represented all mankind.
It's 43 years since he first stepped out onto the lunar surface, one small step for a man. He was 82. There isn't that sense of regret there was a few weeks ago, when Sally Ride died far too young. But it's still another hero gone, another link broken.
He's gone, but his footprints will outlast all of us. Now there's a memorial for one man who represented all mankind.
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Date: 2012-08-25 08:31 pm (UTC)