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A quote from my car forum, I reckon it's pretty good.

I never saw the Moon landing on TV or heard it on radio. I didn't even see the last man walk on the Moon. I was born 17 years after Neil, Buzz and Michael made their amazing journey. However, ever since I was a child I've been fascinated with Apollo, the Moon landing and the manned space program in general. I've read, watch and looked at everything I can from that era of space exploration. At the age of 13 I was sent home from school because I bloodied a kids nose when he said the Moon landings were faked.

Today I am 26 and I cried when I read this news this morning.

This isn't just a great loss to a nation or to NASA. It's a great loss to the entire human race. 43 years ago we put men on the Moon and a Supersonic air-liner in the sky. Today we don't do either and I think that's sad and I hope that if one good thing comes from the passing of Neil Armstrong, it's a renewed effort to as President Kennedy put it "Go to the Moon and do the other things, not because they're easy, but because they're hard."

Goodbye Neil.