Neil Armstrong, The First Man On The Moon Has Died Aged 82

not really comic book news but still sad

moon landing was fake IMO

Rest in peace Neil Armstrong. You made truly went were no man has been before.

R.I.P. Neil Armstrong

Rest in peace good sir. You will be missed.

RIP - Neil Armstrong

You will always be a legend whose name will forever be known.

RIP, anouther moonwalker gone. MJ, and now MR. Armstrong.

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" R.I.P. Neil Armstrong :(

Rest in peace, Neil Armstrong. You've stepped your feet on the surface of the moon, but now you're on a higher place up there.

Not CBM News?!?!!? How many people have been inspired by this man and his famous line on the moon? I'm willing to bet at least one of them was a writer/animator/director/actor of a CBM.

You know, he actually messed up that line. He meant to say: "One small step for A man..." but when he said it, for some reason he dropped the "A."

It makes more sense with the "A" intact - One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. He's just one man, a man, but he's representing the hopes and dreams for the future of all mankind.

But...

The fact is he dropped the A, unintentional as it was and it became one of the most famous and talked about quotes of all time. People speculated for years about he meant. The surface meaning was obvious, this was about the human race and its future, but that one dropped "A" made people wonder if "One Small Step For Man..." represented us and not him, and "One Giant Leap For Mankind" was Armstrong suggesting that this was our first step into a larger universe with "mankind" representing not just us, but every intelligence being in the universe, past present and future. Every race in the universe had to take that first step and here was Armstrong taking ours.

But if you're looking for proof that the moon landing wasn't faked, that one line should be enough. If it had been staged, they've have simply done it again due to Armstrong flubbing his line.

Armstrong himself was fairly reclusive in life following this monumental event. He and Collins (who remained in the module) tended to shy away from the limelight and Aldrin was the one who was out there as the face of that crew. All three men deserve our admiration and respect. We can't stay on this planet forever. Someday the human race is going to have to travel to the stars and Apollo 11 landing on the moon was the first step in that journey. A giant leap for mankind indeed.

The truth is, Armstrong isn't really dead. He's just gone on his final journey of discovery.

Let us know how the view is from up there Commander.
RIP.

I come to cbm.com for comic book movie news. I got to news.com for actual news where this story belongs. I think someone just wanted their write up on the main page

Fake or not, the moon landing inspired millions to look up in the sky and believe. Rest in Peace, Neil Armstrong. The stars will be brighter now with you up there.

You internet ass-holes make me sick, with your conspiracy theory bollocks, sitting at your PCs typing rubbish blaming everyone else especially the 'government' for your failings in life, you watch one program on some dog-vile cable channel and suddenly you have enough evidence to form an opinion. Whats the latest one, the Japanese Tsunami was an american weather controlling weapons test gone wrong, sick bastards, sci-fis great yeh but I think you need to put the joint down and get a life, watching Zeitgeist on YouTube doesn't make you special it just makes you more of a puppet than those watching the media.

Proof the first moon landing was fake? (taken from a website)

When the astronauts are putting up the American flag it waves. There is no wind on the Moon.

No stars are visible in the pictures taken by the Apollo astronauts from the surface of the Moon.

No blast crater is visible in the pictures taken of the lunar landing module.

The landing module weighs 17 tons and yet sits on top of the sand making no impression. Next to it astronauts’ footprints can be seen in the sand.

The footprints in the fine lunar dust, with no moisture or atmosphere or strong gravity, are unexpectedly well preserved, as if made in wet sand.

When the landing module takes off from the Moon’s surface there is no visible flame from the rocket.

If you speed up the film of the astronauts walking on the Moon’s surface they look like they were filmed on Earth and slowed down.

The astronauts could not have survived the trip because of exposure to radiation from the Van Allen radiation belt.

The rocks brought back from the Moon are identical to rocks collected by scientific expeditions to Antarctica.

All six Moon landings happened during the Nixon administration. No other national leader has claimed to have landed astronauts on the Moon, despite 40 years of rapid technological development.

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I'm sure all the landings were fake just to make the USA look more powerful than Russia.

Another giant passes away. R.I.P.


@dreddhead123: it waves because was set in mtion by the astronauts and there is no "still" air stopping it.

There was too much light for the stars to be visible in photos, only in some later missions you can see stars beacause they had more sophisticated cameras with different settings while the cameras of the first missions were pretty barebones.

If you are referring to the lunar module "blast crater", there isn't for the simple reason that the landing was slowed gradually, a crater is created only at very high speed and energy, there was only quite a bit of dust (some went on the "feet" of the module as you can see in some photos).

That is simply not true, you can't see the prints beacause there the module above it.

The lunar regolite is different from earth sand in that it isn't smoothed, they are very irregular so they fit togheter like lego if pur under enough pressure.

Because there was not supposed to be, rockets (depending on the type of propulsion) in space look very differently from what you see in films.

That is simply not true, various times they tried to reverse engineer the supposed slo-mo trick (they even tried at Mythbusters) and the results were never quite as good, even using rigs and cables.
The only way to reproduce the effects is using the famous "vomit comet" which is a bit too small for a credible lunar landing set and can reproduce the low gravity effect only for very short times (a few minutes), and both the TV and the cinecamera were kept fixed for much longer times.

The radiations aren't that intense, it has been calculated that they received the equivalent of a couple of x-rays on each pass, they probably had less radiation than my father the time he broke an elbow and two ribs.

Because some of the rocks in antartica are lunar meteorites: the Moon has no atmosphere and lower gravity than Earth so when an asteroid hits it sometimes fragments of those impacts are able to escape the lunar gravity field and enter Earth's, they are mostly found in antarctica because meteorites there are easier to find.

Hey just because Nixon was a douchebag doesn't mean they are false, they didn't try to make other expeditions because of political and financial reasons, essentially once they made clear they had won the US government thought more sensible to spend money on tank and rifles to shoot at people than on exploring space.

Mythbusters did a great show where they debunked the "fake" moon landing conspiracy theories. I suggest those that believe all the reasons some say it was fake look up that episode.