| Author | Message | ||
     Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 439 Registered: 03-2007 |
The BBC has reported that Neil Armstrong, the fisrt man to walk on the moon, has died aged 82 years. A song recording the event by one of my favourite American singer/songwriters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYT8sALMG Fw | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 440 Registered: 03-2007 |
That would be 'first.' | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 3029 Registered: 03-2005 |
And here I just assumed you'd post this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jvm5Wm44 uE Well, I couldn't find it without "Amazing Grace" attached but maybe that's just as well. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4807 Registered: 05-2005 |
RIP to a true American hero. With apologies to Mr Armstrong: It is 10 years to the day since we moved to Australia. One small step for mankind, one giant leap for man, woman and child. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 843 Registered: 05-2005 |
I was just talking today at work about this. His death and Davey Jones' (dare I say) really hit home how old I must be getting! They were true icons of the 60's and now they are all falling. | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 441 Registered: 03-2007 |
Geoff, I know how you feel. John Stewart died in 2008 aged 68. I bought 'California Bloodlines' back in 1969 and followed his career through to the end. I never managed to see him play live in his heyday but he was a regular visitor to Scotland in the later part of his life and I saw him perform ( solo and with band ) in Edinburgh, Perth and Dalry, Ayrshire. The Dalry venue was a backroom at The Turf Inn which held about 80 to 100 people. Several of his performances at the venue were filmed to video around 2001/2003. I was present at all of them. He was struggling with his voice by that time but I still loved listening to him and watching him play. He was a wonderful storyteller. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJbzymdc4 aU Randy, I am not sure which one of those two I dislike most. :-) | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1665 Registered: 08-2006 |
I actually met Neil Armstrong once, when I worked for a politician in Ohio back in the 80s. I can't remember now what the event was but it had something to do with college funding. The guy was the most normal, modest, almost nerdy people you could hope to meet. I was speechless. He reminded me that sometime ordinary people are the ones who do the most extraordinary things. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 628 Registered: 10-2006 |
A down-to-earth sort, in other words, Rob? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1666 Registered: 08-2006 |
Exactly, Stuart : ) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 2425 Registered: 01-2005 |
Neil Armstrong was born in the small city of Wapakoneta, Ohio. Have you ever been there Rob? | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1667 Registered: 08-2006 |
I have indeed, Michael. When I worked for the politician referenced above I travelled with her a lot. I was in 86 of Ohio's 88 counties, and did indeed get to Wapakoneta. Although I don't think that's where I met Neil Armstrong. I feel like it was a bigger town. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 2239 Registered: 09-2006 |
A number of the astronauts seem to have been of similar stock as Armstrong - if any haven't seen it I'd highly recommend the film For All Mankind, which basically puts together a trip to the moon and back from footage of all the missions and interview voiceovers from many of the astronauts, backed up by the lovely Eno score that ended up on the Apollo album. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 4816 Registered: 05-2005 |
But then there was Lisa Nowak, the astronaut who drove from Houston to Orlando, Florida, on February 4–5, 2007. She packed latex gloves, a black wig, a BB pistol and ammunition, pepper spray, a hooded tan trench coat, a 2-pound drilling hammer, black gloves, rubber tubing, plastic garbage bags, $585 in cash, her computer, an 8-inch Gerber folding knife and several other items before driving the 900 miles to Florida. Early police reports indicated she wore diapers during the trip, but she later denied this. On February 5, 2007, Nowak went to the Orlando International Airport, waited for about an hour in the baggage claim, and then proceeded to the airport parking lot, where she located and confronted Colleen Shipman, her former lover's girlfriend, who had just arrived from Houston by plane... |