Neil Armstrong RIP

[BrilloPad]

1972. 30 years ago. England have got more chance of winning the world cup again then there is another moon landing by the USA. With that in mind though, it can be proved that England won the world cup, not sure about those moon landings.

Maybe China will send someone up soon. Though they have little time for "vanity" projects.

[MarillionFan]

Maybe China will send someone up soon. Though they have little time for "vanity" projects.

As a kid in the 70s we all believed we'd be living on Mars & the Moon in the future. Some of you are on a different planet but I'm not convinced that's progress.

[NickFitz]

1972. 30 years ago.

40.

Good to see your basic arithmetic is still up to scratch

[adubya]

You'll be telling me that NASA hasn't landed a probe on Pluto next.

Gotcha, a "comedy" post on a RIP thread. Caught me off guard.

[EternalOptimist]

Neil, you just took your biggest step. RIP

[OwlHoot]

BBC News - US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies, first man on Moon

Perhaps the saddest thing is he didn't live to see a manned base established on the Moon

Often seems to be the same with exploration though, people or societies have a way of overreaching themselves and then taking decades to follow up with permanent settlement. Almost 100 years between Julius Caesar's expeditions to Britain and the Roman invasion in 43AD, decades between the first Brit to sail to North America and the first British settlement, ditto Antarctica, etc (probably).

[MarillionFan]

Perhaps the saddest thing is he didn't live to see a manned base established on the Moon

Often seems to be the same with exploration though, people or societies have a way of overreaching themselves and then taking decades to follow up with permanent settlement. Almost 100 years between Julius Caesar's expeditions to Britain and the Roman invasion in 43AD, decades between the first Brit to sail to North America and the first British settlement, ditto Antarctica, etc (probably).

That was because of Global Warming. The weather was terrible at the time.

[ctdctd]

I'm of the moon landing generation - it's a bit like Concorde - we reached for the skies and kind of stopped.

RIP Neil - maybe Moonbase Alpha one day?

[ZARDOZ]

Perhaps the saddest thing is he didn't live to see a manned base established on the Moon

Are you telling me Moonbase Alpha never was? Those bloody lying Merkins made it up in a TV studio.

[NickFitz]

The Telegraph has a startling revelation: