First Ride now Armstrong... RIP to the First Man to Walk on the Moon

**DuckiesDarling** · Aug 25, 2012, 7:26 PM

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/america...-the-moon-dies

Neil Armstrong has died at the age of 82. RIP to the one of the men who so got me started on my interest in science, I remember well watching the news footage in school and hearing your voice recording of one of the most recognizable quotes from American History. It was indeed one small step for man but a giant leap for mankind.

**morandi** · Aug 25, 2012, 8:37 PM

Didn't know Neil was a bisexual, so the first on the moon was a bisexual... Great!

**12voltman59** · Aug 25, 2012, 8:39 PM

I did not hear that he had died---where I am presently is about 20 miles from where he was born, in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

I got to hear him speak a decade or so at an event in Dayton at the Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB for the Aviation Hall of Fame. He is but yet one more Ohioian, along with the Wright Brothers, John Glenn and others who have played important roles in aviation history.

He will be missed and his role as the first man to walk on the moon will be long remembered.

**DuckiesDarling** · Aug 26, 2012, 1:58 PM

Originally Posted by morandi

Didn't know Neil was a bisexual, so the first on the moon was a bisexual... Great!

reading this post made me actually go do some research.. sorry most of what i find simply states he was not bisexual no matter how many would like for him to be. Why did he have to be bisexual to have what he did for the world count??? It's about a human being that was achieved something most of us consider great and that had nothing to with whether he was gay, straight or bi, just a man with a brave heart who did what many of us still dream about doing.

**tenni** · Aug 26, 2012, 2:29 PM

He will be remembered for an amazing first for humans. He lived a fairly long life. His long life shows us that space travel didn't negatively impact his body. I guess his passing reminds us all of our mortality. Why he is more significant at dying say than an entertainer who has died in their 80's, I'm not sure. We can offer our sympathy to his family. I'm sitting here typing wondering if a good friend's mother has died yet. I got a call on Friday from him saying that the doctors don't expect her to live past the weekend. Maybe, she will as she has won against cancer for six years now. Its a funny place when you know what is predicted.

I don't think that a person's sexuality counts though if someone did amazing things. It is not like their sexuality "caused" their greatness...or is it?...