this guy radiated such warmth, i love his smile, when he said the moon was an interesting place to be “I recommend it” it really made me chuckle. Rest in peace commander, you’ve secured your legacy forever.
The moon landing at 50: Neil Armstrong in his own words. 21.5.24. when the space race was interesting. when nasa employed folk who, seemingly, knew what they were doing.....
@@kevmehl The moon landing at 50: Neil Armstrong in his own words 1220pm 11.8.24 maybe the warrior/hero needs to be a bit of a boffin to pull him through the less than mjusclebloiund aspects to endeavours undertaken... i think we're requested to refer to greek myth icarus, maybe or the hercules struggling to comprehend that deft skill, skiming a discus over a rock via the waves of the sea, beats the all out brawn of the generic throwing of said discus at said rock.... anyhow...???????????????????????? anyhow; i aint a coprophiliac so their crapping on the moon before they buggered off back to earth is a bit rich for my liking.... 'which benighted mucker has left this pile or daring doo, here..................? ' will be the cry of any self possesed future space cadet, as he contemplates the simplicity is of the essence of past space exploration, as he steps out of the module.....
The man was on the brink of tears 50 years later talking about his dead daughter. Being a father of a child who's the same age as Neil's daughter was when she passed I can understand why. You'll never ever get over it. Never. No matter what you do or achieve. It'll always devastate you as long as you live. Godspeed Neil.
Rip Karen "Muffie" Armstrong. Been reading "First man," the biography of Armstrong written by James R. Hansen and I got teary eyed reading about Neil and Janet struggling with Karen's tumor in her final months. Such a sweet, innocent little girl gone far too soon.
Having read the book and listening to his response, I think his sadness is broader. He said that he thought his family was handling it, so he went to work fully. They were not handling it well and I think he regrets not being there more for them.
Famous for being the first to set foot on the moon. He felt we all should be recognized "For the ledger of our daily work." That is the epitome of an ultimate workaholic. Still it would have been wonderful to be one of those students to have a college instructor that walked on the moon.
I watched another interview with him. It was decided only late in the picture that Apollo 11 would land on the moon. He was committed to the space program and doing his part, which could have been simply to test the lunar module's descent and ascent from the surface. In fact he was thoroughly prepared to do that and let the next Apollo mission be the first on the moon. That humility of service with all your talents and experience to something larger than yourself is inspiring.
I sat in Neil's Washington DC office where he worked for about a year on July10th, 1970. My Uncle Nels worked for NASA at its DC Headquarters and I was alone that evening with the chance he would come back from Langley where he was at that day. His secretary and my uncle were friends and she allowed this 18 year old to wait alone in his office. At 8 PM, I left to travel back by rail and bus to Wheaton, MD where my aunt and uncle lived. He did not come back that evening. An opportunity not realized.....but a memory of possiblly meeting a man who first stepped on The Moon 355 days or less than a year earlier. He knew I had been there and sent me an autograph picture to my home in Philadelphia, thanking me for waiting for him and saying he would have come back to the office if he had known I was there. James B. Horan. May 31, 2024.
I was ten years old in the summer of '69. Neil Armstrong was a childhood hero of mine, as were all of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts. They seemed larger than life and eternal. The world doesn't seem right without Neil Armstrong in it.
I was 16 years old at the time, and I remember the excitement and the moon walks . Watched all the Apollo missions and especially from the Apollo 8, where all the astronauts went to the moon (minus no's 9, 10 and 13) Looking forward to the next generation of luna astonauts !
"I don't think I will get the chance but I'm not going to say I'm not available". Such a willingness for more of the "impossible". Much respect and love for him. Amazing legend. 💜
@@911jedi8 derp moon landing is fake derp even though there has been tons of data proving it's not derp. Let me guess you think the earth is flat right?
Lol if only he actually went to the moon he woulda been a proud man after returning but first interviews he was ashamed disappointed and kept his head down. No blast crater landing on the moon but theres boot prints? Telemetry data all gone missing? What a joke. Phone call to president Nixon from the moon before cell phones? I bet you can't wait until the government tells you who to worship as a God because you will
Indeed. Just goes to show that, it doesn’t matter who you are - I mean, this guy was Neil Armstrong - he faced dangers and celebrated accomplishments that almost every other person who has ever lived *never* could understand; yet, even Neil Armstrong couldn’t quite face the loss of a child. It simply must be the most horrible thing that any person could ever experience.
@Time4Truth said _"It's pretty obvious at this point the 1969 moon landing was fake."_ Obvious? How so? Got anything other than anonymous armchair cherry-picked and selectively edited conspiratard nutjob youtube videos to back your claim? On top of that, there were 9 moon shots, and 6 of those actually landed. All fake? Yeah, right.
@Time4Truth Neil DeGrasse Tyson believes we landed on the moon. LiveScience.com believes we landed on the moon. The 400,000 it took to make the the launch happen believes we landed on the moon. Basically, you're stupid if you believe it was faked. www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/65911-moon-landing-footage-impossible-to-fake.html
Neil was just such a good man.. Very logical and stable. I wish I could be so well prepared to live my life as he.. May GOD Bless Neil Armstrong. His life was very Hard after what he did. I celebrate this very good man..
Neil Armstrong’s son at career day: My dad is an astronaut and the first man to walk on the moon. But as we all know it was faked. So my dad is a damn loser
Millions of ppl watching this on live tv and in person, seeing them board the rocket, seeing them come back to earth and get off the rocket or module… and still believe it was fake is mind blowing to me
Neil Armstrong was a special man, he didn't "cheat death" in that lunar lander training vehicle, he made a correct quick decision that saved his life. His knowledge and understanding of the Gemini 8 systems saved his life and his fellow astronauts life. His manual landing on the moon was calculated and superbly executed, he could see the computer was going to put them down in an unsuitable place. Neil Armstrong was the right man for that job.
The computer didn't have anything near that kind of capacity. The radar showed that the target landing site was covered with boulders and Neil decided 'let's head over there and check it out, our only other option is abort'. Neil had manual control over virtually everything from start to finish.
Even after his escape with death ejecting from the lunar lander training vehicle seconds before it crashed, he didn't complain he went back to his office that same day which shows how cool he is ebven under pressure.
I really disliked the portrayal of him in the movie 'First Man'. You notice in the movie that he doesn't smile at all. Never. His face is emotionless throughout the entire movie. By virtually all accounts he was a bit of a guarded person, but also quite personable.
Influencers abd celebrities could learn a whole lot from this guys life story... He led by example.. He didn't need to stay in the limelight, nor did he want to... A reluctant hero, from a time when people valued graciousness and integrity above everything ejse... A true hero in every sense of the word
He seemed like the kind of guy I would have loved to have a conversation with. A true hero without ego. Just a very nice, sincere guy with an amazing legacy and story to tell.
except he wouldn't talk to people about it. its why he quit his University teaching job - students kept wanting him to tell about how he went to the Moon and he didn't want to.
Neil Armstrong’s son at career day: My dad is an astronaut and the first man to walk on the moon. But as we all know it was faked. So my dad is a damn loser
Ed Bradley is a gentleman and so respectful. He brings real game to a field that has been so tarnished. Thank you Mr. Bradley. And thank you Mr. Armstrong ! Your humility is unending. In a world so in desperate need of people to look up to-. May we look up to you and to the courage you displayed as the entire globe watched you step into history ?
Tarnished by what people trying to wake you up to the fact they are screwing everyone. Look at this evidence just why would you ignore this, why ua-cam.com/video/afYcxy_JadY/v-deo.html
yes some of us can vouch for how much the program can take from your family life. Neil was one of the reasons I went forward into the NASA program and was driven.I was mission support for 32 years starting 1979.
America picked the right man to hold the honor of the first man to step on the Moon. Deke Slayton is probably the man most responsible for choosing Armstrong.
The moon landing was supposed to be Apollo 10 until they decided kinda last minute for 10 to go down to only 10 miles or so I think above t the surface. In hindsight that mighta been for Armstrong.
@@bbbabrock Apollo 10 was a dress rehearsal for the descent but the mission plan did not include landing and the LEM was loaded with insufficient fuel to land.
@Requiem4aDr3Am Not sure I follow you. Some say that NASA made Apollo 10 short on fuel because.otherwise Cernan and Stafford would have probably been tempted to set that thing down on the surface.
If Apollo 10 had landed on the Moon, Stafford and Cernan would have been in so much trouble. They would have been branded for life as insubordinates out for glory.
What an amazing humble man. All he accomplished in his career and life. He's still a simple man. This is the first time I heard him talk about the moon. Thank you Neil Armstrong for taking us all with you on that special trip to the moon. Rest in peace...
@NASA Going Nowhere Since 1958 At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities. Dont you think someone would blow the whistle if it was all faked? If you still believe this conspiracy nonsene in 2021, it only makes you look really stupid.
@@extracoolboy okay why didnt we go back at least once in the 80s, 90s, or 2000s, its 2021 and look at our technology, it's because they can't do it they cant get passed van allen's belt, till today they still cant figure out how, that is how hard it is, one day human race will eventually but if we cant go in today's technology what makes you think they did it in the 60s with alluminium foil wrap around the space ship hahahha use your brain cell buddy, gold foil wrap around the outer of space ships can prevent the super strong Allen belt's radiation? Do you even know how strong the radiation is.
@@jugg9140 I see you've 'graduated' from the Prestigious University of Utube. I hear one of the con men (sorry. learned professors) there is Bart Sibrel. Yet even after all that 'research' you've apparently done, it's all for nothing. If your 'diploma' was printed out, it'd not be worth the paper it's printed on. Probably only be good for arse wipe. Then it'd most likely block up the sewer.
@@jugg9140 Let James van Allen tell you all about those radiation belts. QUOTE: "The radiation belts of the Earth do, indeed, pose important constraints on the safety of human space flight. The very energetic (tens to hundreds of MeV) protons in the inner radiation belt are the most dangerous and most difficult to shield against. Specifically, prolonged flights (i.e., ones of many months' duration) of humans or other animals in orbits about the Earth must be conducted at altitudes less than about 250 miles in order to avoid significant radiation exposure. A person in the cabin of a space shuttle in a circular equatorial orbit in the most intense region of the inner radiation belt, at an altitude of about 1000 miles, would be subjected to a fatal dosage of radiation in about one week. However, the outbound and inbound trajectories of the Apollo spacecraft cut through the outer portions of the inner belt and because of their high speed spent only about 15 minutes in traversing the region and less than 2 hours in traversing the much less penetrating radiation in the outer radiation belt. The resulting radiation exposure for the round trip was less than 1% of a fatal dosage - a very minor risk among the far greater other risks of such flights. I made such estimates in the early 1960s and so informed NASA engineers who were planning the Apollo flights. -- James A. Van Allen" END QUOTE So, why do you think you understand more about the Van Allen belts than James Van Allen?
Imagine being the man every kid in the world wants to grow up and be like and ever man in the world wishes they were like. What an experience he got to experience. A true legend that will be remembered for eternity.
You are so on point. Can you imagine being that guy? Millions of kids looking up to you and in your own heart you know that you have defrauded millions of kids. You would be a Recluse just like mr. Armstrong. He lived a lie. WE NEVER WENT TO THE MOON.
He came to my mother's home town of Tralee in the South West of Ireland in 1997 to open a Space Exploration exhibition. As the story goes the organisers were trying to think of who they might get to come and open it and say a few words, and someone said 'Why not Neil Armstrong?' and of course everyone laughed at this preposterous idea. But they sent a letter just because why not, and the man himself came. They unveiled a dedication to him last year i think. The fact he wasnt interested in talking endlessly about himself and his achievements to the newspapers and TV, but was willing to fly over and open an exhibition in a small town is a mark of the character of the man.
How is it we come across so many people that have these big egos and do nothing but boast about themselves,yet this man is incredibly humble about being one of the bravest men to walk the Earth.
It's really the only slightly downbeat thing about the 50th anniversary, that Neil Armstrong isn't here to celebrate it. It can't be helped, of course, there's nobody to blame. He just deserves to be here with Buzz and Mike to commemorate one of the greatest things that our little species has achieved. It's a wonderful thing for us that towards the end of his life, Neil felt comfortable enough to be in the public eye once again. I think it was the same understanding of his place in history that was partly responsible for it. Imagine now if the period immediately following the Apollo 11 mission was all we had of this great good man. It's obvious to most people that of all those who are possessed of "the right stuff", Neil Armstrong was the missile man with the steeliest eye. That's why he commanded the mission, that's why he was first down the ladder. He was the right kind of human being to represent the rest of us on another celestial body. Right stuff or no, nothing prepares you for or strengthens or comforts you through the loss of your child. And you can see here, in the judiciously edited few moments when Neil answers a question or two about Karen, that we are, as a species, levelled by certain things. Through it all, Neil Armstrong was, is and will remain a towering figure of our planet's history.
I think that was the furthest thing from his mind. He really didn't care about anniversaries. He wasn't that kind of a man. He probably was ready to go be with his baby girl.
What we are all watching is a man that will be remembered not for 100 years or 400, but for thousands upon thousands, until humanity has passed away into the annals of time. That is amazing to think about.
@@pedrokantor3997 Maybe. Or maybe not. 2500 years ago there was a man who took a great journey that would be comparable to Neil Armstrong's in our time. His name was Odysseus, and the story of his Odyssey is still taught in every college world wide, despite the collapse of the Delian League and the Roman Empire. Heroes do not fade so easily into the dark. They become legends.
I find it so amazing that all the astronauts involved with the moon missions have difficulty talking about their experience on the moon, especially when you consider they have to say about it The responses are always very limited and short.
You now how special a person is when you can remember exactly where you where when you found out they had passed on I can when I heard the sad news off this great mans passing.
Wonderful interview. I do remember watching the landing on a black & white TV. Just received a postcard showing Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon. And got to see this interview 🙂
I was born in 1962. As a young man back then my dad loved the space stuff! He spoiled me rotten with rockets, pictures and just about anything he could get his hands on. Mr. Armstrong is a very brave man and a true hero in my book! He did alot for this country!
I admire Neil Armstrong's humility and remarkable calm. Barely escaped death in a test landing that crashed, but walked away and did paperwork. I can't think of a more deserving man to be the first to step on the moon. His absence was felt at the 50th anniversary commemoration.
You sound like an ^!^ ask your self how in the world that moon landing was filmed live and how was it possible for the president to call him from a landline phone.
@@dontmentiontheviewcount3366 I am going to guess by faking that I have an education. But because I do, you can actually find it online no fake landing on it.
@@IslandA4A having an education would have taught you to never start a sentence with the word but…..but you did, and it clearly didn’t…..and hence I am correct! I can also find the moon landings online!! Have another go if you want to but this time at least act as if you received an education!!
To this day, I still don't know Walter Cronkite's political views. I'm sure the info is available somewhere, but it's not on the TV screen when he spoke. Because it wasn't all about him - or the ratings. We looked to anchors for honesty and candor and they helped us understand the context and relevance of World events. Newsmen and women carried themselves with dignity and professionalism and they took their job- their duty to inform us with the FACTS- very seriously. Walter's unexpected reaction when Apollo touched down on the moon was remarkably touching and unrehearsed. How refreshing. Now, 50 years later, we have Jim Acosta.
He was a true newsman. He told the story. He was the one who decided Watergate was a story worth reporting and it was then that the nation took notice. He didn't opine over it, he just reported it. There are few newsmen today. They are "personalities" and often have a character they portray. Cronkite managed the news, now it's done by corporate. Go with what sells, not what is really news. Watch an episode of BBC World News and then watch any US network newscast. It's embarrassing. They will spend 20 minutes on a crisis that the US news will give a brief mention at the end of the newscast... and then show you puppies so you feel good. Ugh.
filoIII I watched Cronkite in his glory days. I never got a feel of his personal views. Years later it turns out he was far left wing. He was a professional unlike many of today.
He’s not wrong about, “Circumstances put me in that particular role; that wasn’t planned by anyone.” If the Apollo 8 and 9 crews hadn’t been switched, Pete Conrad would have been the first man on the Moon.
I remember as a growing child in Malaysia, the immense excitement of Apollo 11. The whole world was watching too. The sacrifice made and success of landing on the moon. I do not see and feel much of the same for anything - today.
LMacNeill too many people have the technology to reveal hoax’s. They don’t have the technology to fake and not get caught anymore. They lost it somehow. So they said.
@@bdill3445 it was faked to boost American morale in the Space Race. They 'Lost' the technology? They thought they would actually be able to pull it off given another 10 years, so they faked it with Stanley Kubricks help...So now, 50 years later, they seem to have 'misplaced' or 'lost' the technology of the previous 5 decades Are you serious! More like, people are able to find the many anomalies in video footage! It would be too obvious and they would lose the last few NASholes that are still under NASA's propaganda brainwashing. Cant have that now can we....
So glad this was uploaded! I can now watch a version of this segment that's less blurry! RIP Neil Armstrong and Ed Bradley. Hard to believe this aired a year and 3 days before Bradley passed away. On a side note, along with the lack of competition, anyone else think the Recession might've been a reason we didn't have any moon missions by last year's deadline.
7 22 19 Hey@@commentfreely5443 , After reading some of the ignorant & vulgar comments, I can see why they disable them! Who needs the aggravation & moderate the nonsense? Be well. v
“Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day. Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.” Genesis 1:6-10 The truth will set you free. Just like all of the Catholic schools and churches are shut down in my hometown of Erie Pa now. There used to be so many I can’t count. But no one talks abt the millions they had to pay families that bankrupted them. The Challenger alone….And they knew like Babylon knew stop the madness stop trying to play GOD!
I was a young girl, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. My dad worked for Boston illustrate wire & cable company , at the time in El Segundo CA. His job was braiding the cables for the Appolo flights, he was very proud of his work. We all were proud.
He represented the professional and government men of that generation, which is clear in the footage of the "all male" NASA center that controlled the launch through lunar landing to the successful re-entry to the earth. Julie Ann Racino, Rome Science Academy, 2019
@@JulieAnnRacino julie. Since youre in science can you explain how a human being can survive 25,000 miles of high radiation in a tin can spacecraft? Id love to learn.
It wasn't high levels of radiation. Cosmic rays can't be stopped, but the dose is also low. Combined with the fact the round trip was only a week long they decided to simply risk it.
@@RocketPipeTV That documentary is based on a book by Bill Kaysing. Kaysing was a dishonest liar and an opportunist who started all this faked moon landing nonsense so that he could make money selling books and giving talks intended to take money away from gullible people who paid him to tell them what they wanted to hear. Funny how you would listen to a crackpot like Kaysing and others like him while you ignore the mountains of evidence that the landings were real.
@@armiesep8710 Thank you. #45 set into motion a movement that feeds fear, hate and ignorance. It has brought out the worst in Americans, that is a cancer eating away at democracy and destroy our republic.
The discovery that Neil Armstrong was a glider pilot made my day. As a general aviation pilot and avid glider pilot, I agree. Spiraling in an updraft with the vultures is the closest you can get to being a bird. And it allows the pilot to really hone pure piloting skills. It also gives me the opportunity to share time with many distinguished retired military pilots (even a retired air force general).
I am a general aviation pilot as well I fly an old luscombe 8a and my father and I built a steen skybolt. I have always wanted to try glider flying. It seems very interesting and fun. I can imagine the lack of engine noise is one of the better parts as well. Have a good one stay safe buddy!!!
Neil represents everything American. Going above and beyond, doing the best you can, and not giving a flying dung about the accolades. I wish more people cared about the substance. Not the style.
The human being is still not in a position to adopt scientific advances of great magnitude, if he has not been able to develop spiritual awareness, to solve his problems of coexistence.
Indeed the original stage 1 engines all did shake themselves to pieces on the test platform from the shockwaves in the exhaust created by the imperfect way in wich fire burns just like the flicker of a candle flame, a problem never before seen in rocket engines because no one dared to make one so powerful .the solution was to feed the fuel in a sort of chaotic imperfect manner to counteract the shock waves so they wouldnt explode . The saturn 5 was the perfect mix of marvel and madness and any man willing to ride one a very brave an enlightened soul
HE WENT THRU SUCH AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER. THOSE MISSING 6 MINS. OF TRANSMISSION, THAT THE NATION DIDN'T HEAR, HAD CAUSED HIM ANGST FOR A VERY LONG TIME. IT'S GOOD TO SEE HIM HAPPY DURING THIS INTERVIEW. THX NEIL TO A JOB WELL DONE ! 👍
How humble Neil Amstrong is. Love how he kept working and doing things like flying a plane with no engine.The closest as a bird that gives him a lot of excitement. He was right, astronauts has little time to spend with family due to the intense training and work. Interesting to know he expected a lot more than NASA achieved related to the Moon and permanence. Lack of competition think to matter, as far as he said. A man I admire mostly because he was genuine, and humble. Great interview!
@@stevetreloar6602 yes it mocks you moon landing believing idiots by giving non stop evidence and proof that they lied. Obviously you never watched it or if you did... Cognitive dissonance kicked in when you were proven wrong and your response is to run like an idiot because your afraid to be wrong.
Neil Armstrong was a very good, incredibly modest man. His achievements in space exploration are very great. We will always remember his first steps on another heavenly body.
I felt for Neil when he had to tackle the difficult questions on the death of his little girl, Karen. You can tell it still affected him due to the lack of his ability to speak about it. So sad.
At 13. 59 Neil Armstrong speaks in answer to losing his Daughter (1962) visibly still, traumatised and upset strongly holding emotion in. Greatest empathy for him, I know exactly what that feels like. I lost my beautiful Daughter she was 16 , she went away to Heaven, very hard to live with, you never come to terms with the loss. over time you learn to live with it. The Good Doctor who came out to talk me, said keep busy, work is good, take your mind off things. Just like Neil Armstrong said he went to work and carried on and kept busy. One thing I am pretty sure of, when he walked on the moon he thought of his Daughter, and in that moment thought I am just a little bit closer to my beautiful Daughter.
At the very end of the moonwalk, after Aldrin had returned to Eagle, Armstrong took an unscheduled walk to the edge of a nearby crater. It's said he placed a picture of his daughter there.
@@MacLuckyPTP Wilful stupidity is not a particularly endearing quality, especially when applied to the greatest technical accomplishment of the 20th century.
America’s moment. And the man who saved the mission by guiding the LEM manually in the seconds before landing. Imagine for a moment if he had frozen up and failed. Then compare the overwhelming sense of devastation that would have followed with the exultation around the world following the mission’s success. Neil Armstrong steered history in America’s direction.
@@neilarmstrongsson795 Reading/listening to the real-time audio from Apollo 11 is fascinating. You're obviously quite the fan of his, hence the username, so you've probably heard it already. 👍
firetheho and Christopher, I'll bite. What did Armstrong "lie" about? At you two moon landing deniers? Is that your Shtick? If that's what you two are on about, just know that you're idiots.
You caught Neil Armstrong in a rare mood . He was notoriously known for hating to give interviews especially public ones. Many people point out how uncomfortable, unemotional and reserved all of the astronauts were when talking to the press and others when they first cam back from the.Moon. Amazing regardless.
there's a reason why they felt so reserved and reticent, and it's because of what they discovered while they were up there, and what they were bound to once they arrived back on earth. there's so much they felt they couldn't reveal that has already been revealed by other parties since their epic journey. the moon isn't just some satellite ~375,000km from us, there's a lot more to it than those 'people in the know' are willing to reveal
Any person who actually accomplished something like that would proudly and freely give numerous interviews calmly, relaxed and articulate , look again at the one he gave with Buzzed and Collins… you don’t need to be an expert to clearly see all three were uncomfortable… That’s how liars give interviews… The moon is plasma, not a rock some Freemasons can land on… The earth is unequivocally an immovable Plane less earthquakes in a closed system, not a spinning space rock in a soul lure system… Peace
@@STAG162 casting fairly tales to cover the truth is not honorable… the moon is simply the lesser light for our immovable plane earth realm… The globe lie and the soul lure system was supposed to be the last lie we all were told just after Santa Claus but our parents and their parents before didn’t catch on to the deception, enough is enough… Peace
@@jjwest1272 Wilful stupidity is not a particularly endearing quality, especially when applied to the greatest technical accomplishment of the 20th century.
Thanks to my country Australia, the world was able to watch the first images of the luna landing. The scientists at Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes were brilliant!
7 22 19 Hey Jules Nagbunga, Yes, couldn't have had the transmissions without the Aussies! I was just reading about their contriburion. I am a bit slow... Be well. v
One of my fondest memories was to meet this incredible man. It was at the 2002(?) Reno National Championship Air Races where I was a crewmember for one of the race planes. It was a very impromptu stop for a cocktail with a beautiful young woman and former Playboy bunny who I had met the evening before. Her grandfather who was there, told us to meet him at a particular motorhome in the VIP area across from the home pilon. The motorhome was nestled in the midsh of several others, with a white fence around it. They were inside the motorhome when we arrived, but a hostess from one of the casinos downtown came out to let us in, and seated us just outside, and took our orders for drinks saying that "Lee, Bill, and Neil" would be right out. The only one I knew there was Kimberly, having only just met her grandfather. I had no idea who "Lee, Bill, and Neil" even were, so we sat back to enjoy our drinks and enjoy each other's company. The racing was over for the day, save for the last Unlimited class heat race for Saturday. The race planes were gathering on the apron right in front of us, when the door opened and out came our hostess followed by three gentlemen, one wearing a red and white flight suit, the others both dressed in casual attire. The only one I recognized was Bill Destifanti, the pilot of the Unlimited racer "Voodoo", a gold class contender and familiar face from my 18 or so years of crewing for our own racer. Then, to my utter amazement, the other two fellows took off their sunglasses as they introduced themselves first, to Kimberly, her grandfather, then to me. "Hi. I'm Lee Bailey...F.Lee Bailey. Please call me Lee. And I'm Neil, pleased to meet both of you.",as we shook hands. Then Lee started joking with Neil, telling him it would be impolite to Kimberly for him not to give her his last name. "Armstrong" was all he said. I could have been knocked over so easily, I had just shaken hands with Neil frickin Armstrong!!! That's not the end of the story by far. But suffice it to say that meeting Neil Armstrong that way, sharing a drink, watching the heavily modified P51s, Sea Furies, Corsairs race in the late afternoon sun in an ultra blue sky and talking airplanes with him was a moment I'll never forget.
You're story involving Armstrong and a Playboy girl is about as real as Santa Claus and the moon landing they faked in '69. If it talks like a govt troll and sounds like a gov troll, then it's a govt troll embedded in social media.
Every one knows what Neil said, but does anyone know what Buzz said when he stepped foot in the moon? Aldrin's first words after he set foot on the Moon were “Beautiful view”, to which Armstrong asked “Isn't that something? Magnificent sight out here.” Aldrin answered, “Magnificent desolation
@@helpstopanimalabuse8153 : As opposed to what? Please give the only acceptable statement they would have made from the moon. After all, you're the only one who knows, right?
this guy radiated such warmth, i love his smile, when he said the moon was an interesting place to be “I recommend it” it really made me chuckle. Rest in peace commander, you’ve secured your legacy forever.
Oh yeah! Me too !
All three of these men - Armstrong, Cronkite, and Bradley - are now gone. So glad we have the video preserved here.
Michael B 😭😭😭😭
Michael B Good. Because they ALL lied about a moon landing. smh
@@consciouslyaware5275 smh!
consciously aware of how stupid you sound.
@@consciouslyaware5275 Damn you hella woke
But You were almost killed! “ yeah but I wasn’t “ 🤣🤣🤣💪🏼
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They didnt put the neurotic kids in them fighterplanes , testplanes and rockets.
The moon landing at 50: Neil Armstrong in his own words. 21.5.24. when the space race was interesting. when nasa employed folk who, seemingly, knew what they were doing.....
Wife still divorced him. Unbelievable lol
@@kevmehl The moon landing at 50: Neil Armstrong in his own words 1220pm 11.8.24 maybe the warrior/hero needs to be a bit of a boffin to pull him through the less than mjusclebloiund aspects to endeavours undertaken... i think we're requested to refer to greek myth icarus, maybe or the hercules struggling to comprehend that deft skill, skiming a discus over a rock via the waves of the sea, beats the all out brawn of the generic throwing of said discus at said rock.... anyhow...???????????????????????? anyhow; i aint a coprophiliac so their crapping on the moon before they buggered off back to earth is a bit rich for my liking.... 'which benighted mucker has left this pile or daring doo, here..................? ' will be the cry of any self possesed future space cadet, as he contemplates the simplicity is of the essence of past space exploration, as he steps out of the module.....
The man was on the brink of tears 50 years later talking about his dead daughter. Being a father of a child who's the same age as Neil's daughter was when she passed I can understand why. You'll never ever get over it. Never. No matter what you do or achieve. It'll always devastate you as long as you live. Godspeed Neil.
Rip Karen "Muffie" Armstrong. Been reading "First man," the biography of Armstrong written by James R. Hansen and I got teary eyed reading about Neil and Janet struggling with Karen's tumor in her final months. Such a sweet, innocent little girl gone far too soon.
Having read the book and listening to his response, I think his sadness is broader. He said that he thought his family was handling it, so he went to work fully. They were not handling it well and I think he regrets not being there more for them.
Not quite 50. This was filmed in 2005 weirdly enough.
Neil the man who lied he went into space
@@michaelfedak2144 What is your evidence?
Famous for being the first to set foot on the moon. He felt we all should be recognized "For the ledger of our daily work." That is the epitome of an ultimate workaholic. Still it would have been wonderful to be one of those students to have a college instructor that walked on the moon.
I watched another interview with him. It was decided only late in the picture that Apollo 11 would land on the moon. He was committed to the space program and doing his part, which could have been simply to test the lunar module's descent and ascent from the surface. In fact he was thoroughly prepared to do that and let the next Apollo mission be the first on the moon. That humility of service with all your talents and experience to something larger than yourself is inspiring.
I sat in Neil's Washington DC office where he worked for about a year on July10th, 1970. My Uncle Nels worked for NASA at its DC Headquarters and I was alone that evening with the chance he would come back from Langley where he was at that day. His secretary and my uncle were friends and she allowed this 18 year old to wait alone in his office. At 8 PM, I left to travel back by rail and bus to Wheaton, MD where my aunt and uncle lived. He did not come back that evening. An opportunity not realized.....but a memory of possiblly meeting a man who first stepped on The Moon 355 days or less than a year earlier.
He knew I had been there and sent me an autograph picture to my home in Philadelphia, thanking me for waiting for him and saying he would have come back to the office if he had known I was there.
James B. Horan. May 31, 2024.
That’s a nice story. Thanks for sharing.
I was ten years old in the summer of '69. Neil Armstrong was a childhood hero of mine, as were all of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts. They seemed larger than life and eternal. The world doesn't seem right without Neil Armstrong in it.
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technically hes more "in" it than both of us
I was 16 years old at the time, and I remember the excitement and the moon walks .
Watched all the Apollo missions and especially from the Apollo 8, where all the astronauts went to the moon (minus no's 9, 10 and 13)
Looking forward to the next generation of luna astonauts !
It's a cliche but the words "A inconvenient truth" comes to mind.
H i , So was I . I was 10 as well . I wanted to do the same thing but I do not have the right stuff .
"I don't think I will get the chance but I'm not going to say I'm not available". Such a willingness for more of the "impossible". Much respect and love for him. Amazing legend. 💜
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It's past 2018 has anyone been back to the moon?
@@lionzion1879 Never went in the first place
@@911jedi8 derp moon landing is fake derp even though there has been tons of data proving it's not derp. Let me guess you think the earth is flat right?
@@911jedi8 Let's please stop all this type of nonsense.
I wish Neil were here to enjoy the 50 yr anniversary.
It is not reel
I’m glad he’s resting in peace. He’d be horrified to see who sits in the White House today.
Lol if only he actually went to the moon he woulda been a proud man after returning but first interviews he was ashamed disappointed and kept his head down. No blast crater landing on the moon but theres boot prints? Telemetry data all gone missing? What a joke. Phone call to president Nixon from the moon before cell phones? I bet you can't wait until the government tells you who to worship as a God because you will
Neil wasn't very proud of went on. Last of a true American. He hated lying. I'm not saying we didn't go. We went. Just not how we were told
@@bradjohnson6036 You really, must have an IQ of a pickle
@3:13 when asked about his daughters death.....you can see he is still crying inside....so sad
I lost my precious girl at 38 last year. I cry every day.
@@wildbill5670 sorry mate .hope you get through it.
Indeed. Just goes to show that, it doesn’t matter who you are - I mean, this guy was Neil Armstrong - he faced dangers and celebrated accomplishments that almost every other person who has ever lived *never* could understand; yet, even Neil Armstrong couldn’t quite face the loss of a child. It simply must be the most horrible thing that any person could ever experience.
Interviewer: “You were just almost killed!”
Neil: “Well, I wasn’t.”
True badass.
He is my hero RIP Neil Armstrong
Fear is a word Neil never quite understood obviously.
He was a test pilot as well that's just another day at the office for a test pilot lol
Absoluetly the American Spirit
King Alpha, best of the best.
Ed Bradley died of cancer the year after this. That strikes me as he asks how Armstrong dealt with his toddler’s cancer death.
Imagine the feeling you would have, to sit somewhere late at night, looking up at the moon in the night sky, and remembering you've been there once
Just like me this guy never went to the moon.
@@billgardner376 shame
He never said,or thought ,that...
Wild! Invigorating yet isolating. Imagine having an experience so rare, only a few people can truly share it.
Our true Heroes!!!
4:56 A man of bravery with class. 5:02 "But I wasn't!" still with a smile. What a cool man. 😆😍👌♥️
"I don't think I'm going to get the chance but......I don't want to say, 'I'm not available.' What a great sense of self and humor!!!
@Time4Truth said _"It's pretty obvious at this point the 1969 moon landing was fake."_
Obvious? How so? Got anything other than anonymous armchair cherry-picked and selectively edited conspiratard nutjob youtube videos to back your claim? On top of that, there were 9 moon shots, and 6 of those actually landed. All fake? Yeah, right.
@Time4Truth Neil DeGrasse Tyson believes we landed on the moon. LiveScience.com believes we landed on the moon. The 400,000 it took to make the the launch happen believes we landed on the moon.
Basically, you're stupid if you believe it was faked.
www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/65911-moon-landing-footage-impossible-to-fake.html
Neil was just such a good man.. Very logical and stable. I wish I could be so well prepared to live my life as he.. May GOD Bless Neil Armstrong. His life was very Hard after what he did. I celebrate this very good man..
till today I've never known how humble he was!
To be picked and lucky enough to fly for NASA, there was a certain temperament pilots had to have. They are professionals who dont chase their ego.
Son Of Life Buzz Aldrin can be a bit feisty.
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He never went.
Watch the 'return' press conference.
he is so down to moon
Neil Armstrong’s son at career day: My dad is an astronaut and the first man to walk on the moon. But as we all know it was faked. So my dad is a damn loser
This man also help engineer the homeless tweeker shelter masterpiece too! He was the one who drove down to Bunnings to get supplies. Bless him
Millions of ppl watching this on live tv and in person, seeing them board the rocket, seeing them come back to earth and get off the rocket or module… and still believe it was fake is mind blowing to me
I watched a dinosaur eat a rotten-lawyer off of a toilet at the movies back in 1993.
So yeah, it definitely happened
It's Been Proven ,Dear It Shocked Me And Made Me Very Sad .I Revered Those Men ....😢
A worldwide hero.thank you Sir
Neil Armstrong was a special man, he didn't "cheat death" in that lunar lander training vehicle, he made a correct quick decision that saved his life. His knowledge and understanding of the Gemini 8 systems saved his life and his fellow astronauts life.
His manual landing on the moon was calculated and superbly executed, he could see the computer was going to put them down in an unsuitable place. Neil Armstrong was the right man for that job.
@Fuktard Fagtroll He test piloted the X-15 which was basically a manned missile with airplane wings. That also takes hella balls.
The computer didn't have anything near that kind of capacity. The radar showed that the target landing site was covered with boulders and Neil decided 'let's head over there and check it out, our only other option is abort'. Neil had manual control over virtually everything from start to finish.
r u being serious? or joking? hopefully the latter....
@@speddytaghetti7905 Who's comment are you replying to ?
@@WildPhotoShooter I'm wondering the same.
Simply a legend, and a lovely modest person. A true hero.
Even after his escape with death ejecting from the lunar lander training vehicle seconds before it crashed, he didn't complain he went back to his office that same day which shows how cool he is ebven under pressure.
I was 10 years old when he walked on the moon. I was glued to the TV for hours.
The most humble human being to have ever lived
@@coolnamebro oh look, a moon landing denier 😒😒😒
What a beautiful smile he had. Can you imagine having a teacher that landed on the moon
I really disliked the portrayal of him in the movie 'First Man'. You notice in the movie that he doesn't smile at all. Never. His face is emotionless throughout the entire movie. By virtually all accounts he was a bit of a guarded person, but also quite personable.
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@@jsmith1746 because the movie was a portrayal of his life and how heavily the apollo mission effected his life in a negative way.
Soft spoken, humble, a man who knew his role in the larger good. I know a few leaders that could really use those skills today....
One of the greatest hero's that ever walked the Earth - An inspiration to all who think achievements can't be reached!
1:18 That smile was because he adjusted one of his microphones without the need for the suit-up crew to remove his helmet, which made everybody happy.
"I don't want to say I'm not available..." That quote has stuck with me ever since I saw this interview when it first came out.....
@Donald Trump It's the closing comment. Why do people like you comment on videos you obviously have not even bothered watching?
@Donald Trump Quit trolling us.
@Donald Trump When you ask for a time of literally the last comment of the video then yes you are. Quit wasting people's time.
I've always wanted to say that to an insanely hot entitled woman...
Found myself sitting here smiling the whole time watching this----- RIP Neil-- You are defiantly missed by all !!!!
NOT BY ME. He was the lie. He was paid to live a LIE. I am the 1st space traveler, and you are not conscious you are not conscious.
Gnorts mr alien
Just wish he would of told ua the truth before he went
@@MountainMassOutDoorshe wasn't even a very good actor. Went to the grave with his lie.
Influencers abd celebrities could learn a whole lot from this guys life story... He led by example.. He didn't need to stay in the limelight, nor did he want to... A reluctant hero, from a time when people valued graciousness and integrity above everything ejse... A true hero in every sense of the word
He seemed like the kind of guy I would have loved to have a conversation with. A true hero without ego. Just a very nice, sincere guy with an amazing legacy and story to tell.
Man you just made me realize that if I could sit down with anyone and have a conversation with them Neil would be my top pick
except he wouldn't talk to people about it. its why he quit his University teaching job - students kept wanting him to tell about how he went to the Moon and he didn't want to.
Neil Armstrong’s son at career day: My dad is an astronaut and the first man to walk on the moon. But as we all know it was faked. So my dad is a damn loser
I would have a few questions myself.
Spencer...you have been duped like the rest of us...but, at some point it is necessary to wake up...ua-cam.com/video/9wUKPlW0WDs/v-deo.html
What a thoroughly decent human being. Humble, honest and very cool.
. . . and a LIAR to boot.
You're a FOOL.
WWG1WGA
An honest liar?
@G.Gorrell fake moon rock ?
@G.Gorrell there is no moon rock
@@veilbreak5867 Yawn, snore...next conspiracy clown please.
Ed Bradley is a gentleman and so respectful. He brings real game to a field that has been so tarnished. Thank you Mr. Bradley. And thank you Mr. Armstrong ! Your humility is unending. In a world so in desperate need of people to look up to-. May we look up to you and to the courage you displayed as the entire globe watched you step into history ?
You're the second person in this comment section who apparently didn't get the memo... Ed Bradley hasn't been with this "world" in nearly 13 years.
Ed Bradley wishes to extend his thanks to you from the grave.
We never went to the moon. The moon landing was faked.
Tarnished by what people trying to wake you up to the fact they are screwing everyone. Look at this evidence just why would you ignore this, why
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@@kingneddy damn, you wouldn't know class if it bit you in the *ss.
yes some of us can vouch for how much the program can take from your family life. Neil was one of the reasons I went forward into the NASA program and was driven.I was mission support for 32 years starting 1979.
Kept his beautiful smile and baby face all through. RIP Neil. You are a legend and live on in our hearts
America picked the right man to hold the honor of the first man to step on the Moon. Deke Slayton is probably the man most responsible for choosing Armstrong.
The moon landing was supposed to be Apollo 10 until they decided kinda last minute for 10 to go down to only 10 miles or so I think above t the surface.
In hindsight that mighta been for Armstrong.
@@bbbabrock Apollo 10 was a dress rehearsal for the descent but the mission plan did not include landing and the LEM was loaded with insufficient fuel to land.
@Requiem4aDr3Am Not sure I follow you. Some say that NASA made Apollo 10 short on fuel because.otherwise Cernan and Stafford would have probably been tempted to set that thing down on the surface.
If Apollo 10 had landed on the Moon, Stafford and Cernan would have been in so much trouble. They would have been branded for life as insubordinates out for glory.
Cole Thornton it’s a lie. He never went to the moon.
Men like him never retire. I believe he really meant it , when he said, ' I don't wanna say, I'm not available'.
Yes he is and here is why...ua-cam.com/video/9wUKPlW0WDs/v-deo.html
What an amazing humble man. All he accomplished in his career and life. He's still a simple man. This is the first time I heard him talk about the moon. Thank you Neil Armstrong for taking us all with you on that special trip to the moon. Rest in peace...
He really embodied the best of humanity, the best of America.
He lied...you believe..that's generally your main problem .ua-cam.com/video/-GXvV6Pybns/v-deo.html
Too bad he's a guilt ridden filthy liar.
First time? Thats because it's one BIG lie.
🤣🤣🤣🤣Knight are you a Kday too...
Neil Armstrong what a amazing man
Being able to be on earth, look up at the moon knowing you’ve been there has got to be an incredible feeling
@NASA Going Nowhere Since 1958 bro you're so dumb. imagine thinking it was fake. just imagine.
@NASA Going Nowhere Since 1958 At its peak, the Apollo program employed 400,000 people and required the support of over 20,000 industrial firms and universities. Dont you think someone would blow the whistle if it was all faked? If you still believe this conspiracy nonsene in 2021, it only makes you look really stupid.
@@extracoolboy okay why didnt we go back at least once in the 80s, 90s, or 2000s, its 2021 and look at our technology, it's because they can't do it they cant get passed van allen's belt, till today they still cant figure out how, that is how hard it is, one day human race will eventually but if we cant go in today's technology what makes you think they did it in the 60s with alluminium foil wrap around the space ship hahahha use your brain cell buddy, gold foil wrap around the outer of space ships can prevent the super strong Allen belt's radiation? Do you even know how strong the radiation is.
@@jugg9140 I see you've 'graduated' from the Prestigious University of Utube. I hear one of the con men (sorry. learned professors) there is Bart Sibrel. Yet even after all that 'research' you've apparently done, it's all for nothing. If your 'diploma' was printed out, it'd not be worth the paper it's printed on. Probably only be good for arse wipe. Then it'd most likely block up the sewer.
@@jugg9140 Let James van Allen tell you all about those radiation belts. QUOTE: "The radiation belts of the Earth do, indeed, pose important constraints on the safety of human space flight. The very energetic (tens to hundreds of MeV) protons in the inner radiation belt are the most dangerous and most difficult to shield against. Specifically, prolonged flights (i.e., ones of many months' duration) of humans or other animals in orbits about the Earth must be conducted at altitudes less than about 250 miles in order to avoid significant radiation exposure. A person in the cabin of a space shuttle in a circular equatorial orbit in the most intense region of the inner radiation belt, at an altitude of about 1000 miles, would be subjected to a fatal dosage of radiation in about one week. However, the outbound and inbound trajectories of the Apollo spacecraft cut through the outer portions of the inner belt and because of their high speed spent only about 15 minutes in traversing the region and less than 2 hours in traversing the much less penetrating radiation in the outer radiation belt. The resulting radiation exposure for the round trip was less than 1% of a fatal dosage - a very minor risk among the far greater other risks of such flights. I made such estimates in the early 1960s and so informed NASA engineers who were planning the Apollo flights. -- James A. Van Allen" END QUOTE
So, why do you think you understand more about the Van Allen belts than James Van Allen?
Imagine being the man every kid in the world wants to grow up and be like and ever man in the world wishes they were like. What an experience he got to experience. A true legend that will be remembered for eternity.
someone should tell Neil that.
You are so on point. Can you imagine being that guy? Millions of kids looking up to you and in your own heart you know that you have defrauded millions of kids. You would be a Recluse just like mr. Armstrong. He lived a lie. WE NEVER WENT TO THE MOON.
Experience of lie? He never went to the moon.
RIP NEIL....what a beautiful soul and human! Humble human being!
He came to my mother's home town of Tralee in the South West of Ireland in 1997 to open a Space Exploration exhibition. As the story goes the organisers were trying to think of who they might get to come and open it and say a few words, and someone said 'Why not Neil Armstrong?' and of course everyone laughed at this preposterous idea. But they sent a letter just because why not, and the man himself came. They unveiled a dedication to him last year i think. The fact he wasnt interested in talking endlessly about himself and his achievements to the newspapers and TV, but was willing to fly over and open an exhibition in a small town is a mark of the character of the man.
Thanks for sharing that story. The person who called him a pos should be so humble.
How is it we come across so many people that have these big egos and do nothing but boast about themselves,yet this man is incredibly humble about being one of the bravest men to walk the Earth.
Agreed man
It's really the only slightly downbeat thing about the 50th anniversary, that Neil Armstrong isn't here to celebrate it. It can't be helped, of course, there's nobody to blame. He just deserves to be here with Buzz and Mike to commemorate one of the greatest things that our little species has achieved.
It's a wonderful thing for us that towards the end of his life, Neil felt comfortable enough to be in the public eye once again.
I think it was the same understanding of his place in history that was partly responsible for it. Imagine now if the period immediately following the Apollo 11 mission was all we had of this great good man.
It's obvious to most people that of all those who are possessed of "the right stuff", Neil Armstrong was the missile man with the steeliest eye. That's why he commanded the mission, that's why he was first down the ladder. He was the right kind of human being to represent the rest of us on another celestial body.
Right stuff or no, nothing prepares you for or strengthens or comforts you through the loss of your child. And you can see here, in the judiciously edited few moments when Neil answers a question or two about Karen, that we are, as a species, levelled by certain things.
Through it all, Neil Armstrong was, is and will remain a towering figure of our planet's history.
He was a beautiful man.
Well said.
Unfortunately Buzz is the only remaining member of the three, R.I.P. to Neil and Michael
I think that was the furthest thing from his mind. He really didn't care about anniversaries. He wasn't that kind of a man. He probably was ready to go be with his baby girl.
@@tomconverse7862 in fact his daughter died on his sixth wedding anniversary
The epitome of class, and courage....both Neil and Ed.
3:28 the slight hesitation in his voice, you can tell the loss of his daughter still really hurts.
@@UncommonSense-wm5fd Total class act. I've always liked Neil Armstrong.
@@UncommonSense-wm5fd his is a good man in history , rest in soul legends
I recall watching this all unfold from my living room as a youngster!
same here Christopher Green, used to wait for Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny too back then. Same thing!
@@stillperfectgenerations5852 LOL. Same here.
It remains the highlight of my life.
dumbest movie ever.....FE.......
I was 10, and remember it like yesterday. My mind still boggled.
What we are all watching is a man that will be remembered not for 100 years or 400, but for thousands upon thousands, until humanity has passed away into the annals of time. That is amazing to think about.
All it takes is one collapse of civilization for even him to be forgotten.
@@pedrokantor3997 Maybe. Or maybe not. 2500 years ago there was a man who took a great journey that would be comparable to Neil Armstrong's in our time. His name was Odysseus, and the story of his Odyssey is still taught in every college world wide, despite the collapse of the Delian League and the Roman Empire. Heroes do not fade so easily into the dark. They become legends.
@@BLansford You made a good point with Odysseus.
He will be remembered for the lies he told.
@@jjwest1272 Is your stupidity innate, or do you have to work at it?
I find it so amazing that all the astronauts involved with the moon missions have difficulty talking about their experience on the moon, especially when you consider they have to say about it The responses are always very limited and short.
A down to earth, humble man was the perfect man to walk on the moon, RIP Neil
An extreme contrast to one public man I can think of.
Yea he was so humble
A down to earth man? I think he is QUITE the opposite 😂😂😂😂😂
Guilt ridden, he was never the same after that press conference, turned him into a nervous wreck.
@@FanTazTiCxD He always seemed to be a little up in the air to me
You now how special a person is when you can remember exactly where you where when you found out they had passed on I can when I heard the sad news off this great mans passing.
He is so humble. We could use more of that now.
Wonderful interview. I do remember watching the landing on a black & white TV. Just received a postcard showing Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon. And got to see this interview 🙂
I was born in 1962. As a young man back then my dad loved the space stuff! He spoiled me rotten with rockets, pictures and just about anything he could get his hands on. Mr. Armstrong is a very brave man and a true hero in my book! He did alot for this country!
What did he do for the country?
Sweet to read how much joy U2 shared.😊...v
I have often thought that we as a nation missed an opportunity by not having a black American walk on the moon.
@@dhardy6654 Why?
@@RocketPipeTV First things first: Get off the drugs. Then join AA...
I admire Neil Armstrong's humility and remarkable calm. Barely escaped death in a test landing that crashed, but walked away and did paperwork. I can't think of a more deserving man to be the first to step on the moon. His absence was felt at the 50th anniversary commemoration.
You sound like an ^!^ ask your self how in the world that moon landing was filmed live and how was it possible for the president to call him from a landline phone.
He was a test pilot that's just another day at the office for a test pilot
@@IslandA4A ask yourself how it would be possible for yourself to get a job without an education......that's where your focus should be!
@@dontmentiontheviewcount3366 I am going to guess by faking that I have an education. But because I do, you can actually find it online no fake landing on it.
@@IslandA4A having an education would have taught you to never start a sentence with the word but…..but you did, and it clearly didn’t…..and hence I am correct! I can also find the moon landings online!! Have another go if you want to but this time at least act as if you received an education!!
To this day, I still don't know Walter Cronkite's political views. I'm sure the info is available somewhere, but it's not on the TV screen when he spoke. Because it wasn't all about him - or the ratings. We looked to anchors for honesty and candor and they helped us understand the context and relevance of World events. Newsmen and women carried themselves with dignity and professionalism and they took their job- their duty to inform us with the FACTS- very seriously. Walter's unexpected reaction when Apollo touched down on the moon was remarkably touching and unrehearsed. How refreshing.
Now, 50 years later, we have Jim Acosta.
He was, as every person able to see his surroundings in any kind of objective light, a left wing liberal.
He was a true newsman. He told the story. He was the one who decided Watergate was a story worth reporting and it was then that the nation took notice. He didn't opine over it, he just reported it. There are few newsmen today. They are "personalities" and often have a character they portray. Cronkite managed the news, now it's done by corporate. Go with what sells, not what is really news.
Watch an episode of BBC World News and then watch any US network newscast. It's embarrassing. They will spend 20 minutes on a crisis that the US news will give a brief mention at the end of the newscast... and then show you puppies so you feel good. Ugh.
What a great comment! A view I hadn’t considered.
Cronkite was a globalist.
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I watched Cronkite in his glory days. I never got a feel of his personal views. Years later it turns out he was far left wing. He was a professional unlike many of today.
He’s not wrong about, “Circumstances put me in that particular role; that wasn’t planned by anyone.” If the Apollo 8 and 9 crews hadn’t been switched, Pete Conrad would have been the first man on the Moon.
I remember as a growing child in Malaysia, the immense excitement of Apollo 11. The whole world was watching too. The sacrifice made and success of landing on the moon. I do not see and feel much of the same for anything - today.
I was too all my life, but now i am awaken, wake up you too, make your research and you´ll get to another conclusions, painful but at least the truth
Back to the moon by 2018... I guess we missed that one. ;-)
LMacNeill too many people have the technology to reveal hoax’s. They don’t have the technology to fake and not get caught anymore. They lost it somehow. So they said.
@@bdill3445 it was faked to boost American morale in the Space Race. They 'Lost' the technology? They thought they would actually be able to pull it off given another 10 years, so they faked it with Stanley Kubricks help...So now, 50 years later, they seem to have 'misplaced' or 'lost' the technology of the previous 5 decades Are you serious! More like, people are able to find the many anomalies in video footage!
It would be too obvious and they would lose the last few NASholes that are still under NASA's propaganda brainwashing. Cant have that now can we....
Neil even thought a decade after Apollo 11 they would going above and beyond. Perhaps Mars?
Now it's by 2023. In 2023 it will be 2028. In 2028...lol
@@stillperfectgenerations5852 Kubrick faked it but he was such a perfectionist that he decided to film it on site, on the moon.
So glad this was uploaded! I can now watch a version of this segment that's less blurry!
RIP Neil Armstrong and Ed Bradley. Hard to believe this aired a year and 3 days before Bradley passed away.
On a side note, along with the lack of competition, anyone else think the Recession might've been a reason we didn't have any moon missions by last year's deadline.
Ñeil down and give Walter heard
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@@virginiatyree6705 No censorship, ever! It goes against human nature.
“Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day. Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.”
Genesis 1:6-10
The truth will set you free.
Just like all of the Catholic schools and churches are shut down in my hometown of Erie Pa now. There used to be so many I can’t count. But no one talks abt the millions they had to pay families that bankrupted them.
The Challenger alone….And they knew like Babylon knew stop the madness stop trying to play GOD!
Met Neil in Huntsville at the Space and Rocket Center event, always gave the most credit to the ones who got him to the moon and back.
I was a young girl, when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
My dad worked for Boston illustrate wire & cable company , at the time in El Segundo CA. His job was braiding the cables for the Appolo flights, he was very proud of his work. We all were proud.
What honour your father one part of Big suces of humanity for the times and the times forever one Big hock from Santiago Chile Marcelo Blum
What a decent man he is.
I wanna learn his decency and agility.
Easy become a lying Freemason
Remember when you were young and your hero was a REAL hero, Godspeed Neil
Are you suggesting Caitlin Jenner isn't the equal to these guys?
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Bobby Cars man never landed on the moon. It was all faked.
I used to believe in Santa too but he is not a hero....
Not anymore she’s a few inches short must be the jimmy chews 🥾
American hero. Such a role model for young kids today. This is how you perform and act in life.
Role model? No the kids don't need to come up being liars
@@mike.j3913 The only liar here is *YOU.*
@@Tim22222 At least he learned how to spell "liar". A previous comment of his elsewhere talks about "liers". Maybe he just got spellcheck.
@@therealzilch Ha! You believe spellcheck?!! Just another guvmint conspirasah!!!
@@Tim22222 Dammit, ya got me there. :)
Incredible man. Astounding humility. A true American hero. We salute you, Neil Armstrong.
He represented the professional and government men of that generation, which is clear in the footage of the "all male" NASA center that controlled the launch through lunar landing to the successful re-entry to the earth. Julie Ann Racino, Rome Science Academy, 2019
@@JulieAnnRacino julie. Since youre in science can you explain how a human being can survive 25,000 miles of high radiation in a tin can spacecraft? Id love to learn.
Roger Clemons N.N.
Prove it.
It wasn't high levels of radiation. Cosmic rays can't be stopped, but the dose is also low. Combined with the fact the round trip was only a week long they decided to simply risk it.
Landing on the moon was an amazing achievement. I hope we can go back there someday. Happy 51st anniversary of the moon landing!
You have to wonder why they never went there since then. Watch the documentary @a funny thing happened on the way to the moon“. You may be surprised
@@RocketPipeTV That documentary is based on a book by Bill Kaysing. Kaysing was a dishonest liar and an opportunist who started all this faked moon landing nonsense so that he could make money selling books and giving talks intended to take money away from gullible people who paid him to tell them what they wanted to hear. Funny how you would listen to a crackpot like Kaysing and others like him while you ignore the mountains of evidence that the landings were real.
@@RocketPipeTV Movies made by mad taxi drivers don't count as evidence.
RIP Neil Armstrong. America is in need of more heroes like you, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. We seem to have lost our compass as a nation.
Yes he is good person and he is 1 in a trillion
@Chosen Remix 👈Alex Jones fanboi.
And Buzz Lightyear
@firebearfl...you are correct, we have lost our compass as a nation, starting with president #45. He really caused such ugly division.
@@armiesep8710 Thank you. #45 set into motion a movement that feeds fear, hate and ignorance. It has brought out the worst in Americans, that is a cancer eating away at democracy and destroy our republic.
The discovery that Neil Armstrong was a glider pilot made my day. As a general aviation pilot and avid glider pilot, I agree. Spiraling in an updraft with the vultures is the closest you can get to being a bird. And it allows the pilot to really hone pure piloting skills.
It also gives me the opportunity to share time with many distinguished retired military pilots (even a retired air force general).
I am a general aviation pilot as well I fly an old luscombe 8a and my father and I built a steen skybolt. I have always wanted to try glider flying. It seems very interesting and fun. I can imagine the lack of engine noise is one of the better parts as well. Have a good one stay safe buddy!!!
Great man.
What a humble man. Rest in peace, sir.
Glad to see it. He is a good reference.
Hes a liar,nasa puppet,...we never went to moon....
@@fumemanv Really... must have been Trump fake news then!
Keep believing these lies..its all gonna come out.....wait n see
@southeastern777..ask your mom, son..lol
Neil represents everything American. Going above and beyond, doing the best you can, and not giving a flying dung about the accolades. I wish more people cared about the substance. Not the style.
The human being is still not in a position to adopt scientific advances of great magnitude, if he has not been able to develop spiritual awareness, to solve his problems of coexistence.
@@horus7896 What? Shut up.
You mean he doesn't seem American he's actually humble?
He’s humble and he believes in peace. What is American about that ?
@Southeastern777 and that's why The CIA, The MIC, LBJ, J Edgar and their cohorts ganged up on JFK and murdered him and his son, and MLK, and RFK....
Neil Armstrong was a great human being. Humility, being his greatest attribute.
You knew the guy? How do you know? Maybe he lied about everything and your gullible? ua-cam.com/video/-GXvV6Pybns/v-deo.html
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He was a wonderful actor
@@kimjongun2946 no proof that it was faked
@@reiforsale any proof they went?
When you think you have problems, imagine losing your child and then going to the moon. His grief was heavier than what the Saturn V could lift.
Alan Bean said when he ignited the Saturn V rocket engines he never seen anything that shook so hard and didn't fall apart
Indeed the original stage 1 engines all did shake themselves to pieces on the test platform from the shockwaves in the exhaust created by the imperfect way in wich fire burns just like the flicker of a candle flame, a problem never before seen in rocket engines because no one dared to make one so powerful .the solution was to feed the fuel in a sort of chaotic imperfect manner to counteract the shock waves so they wouldnt explode . The saturn 5 was the perfect mix of marvel and madness and any man willing to ride one a very brave an enlightened soul
Baffles were installed. Tested even by tossing in an explosion to see what woudl happen after.
nothing like a shaking spaceship to tighten your nuts.
@@splitpitch or loosen a few!
"Seen" (ya, from a distance....)
HE WENT THRU SUCH AN EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER.
THOSE MISSING 6 MINS. OF TRANSMISSION, THAT THE NATION DIDN'T HEAR, HAD CAUSED HIM ANGST FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
IT'S GOOD TO SEE HIM HAPPY DURING THIS INTERVIEW.
THX NEIL TO A JOB WELL DONE ! 👍
What a man. Such amazing energy. His children are surely proud of their daddy. He had to make certain sacrifices to help change the world.
How humble Neil Amstrong is. Love how he kept working and doing things like flying a plane with no engine.The closest as a bird that gives him a lot of excitement. He was right, astronauts has little time to spend with family due to the intense training and work. Interesting to know he expected a lot more than NASA achieved related to the Moon and permanence. Lack of competition think to matter, as far as he said.
A man I admire mostly because he was genuine, and humble.
Great interview!
you confuse humility with evasiveness.
You would be humble too if you think you got away with the hoax of the century.
@@Skipbo000yeah here's a conspiracy theorist...
When asked why we haven't achieved more in space Mr., Arstrong said, "When we lost the competition, we lost the public will to continue" - sadly true
What a stupid lie.
@Laika24102007 ha yes I did. Watch: a funny thing happened on the way to the moon . enjoy
They lost a lot of things like the telemetry data and all the technology to go back to the moon
@@bradjohnson6036 That is the most patronizingly stupid mockumentary on youtube and a firm favourite amongst people with low cranial capacity.
@@stevetreloar6602 yes it mocks you moon landing believing idiots by giving non stop evidence and proof that they lied. Obviously you never watched it or if you did... Cognitive dissonance kicked in when you were proven wrong and your response is to run like an idiot because your afraid to be wrong.
Neil Armstrong was a very good, incredibly modest man. His achievements in space exploration are very great. We will always remember his first steps on another heavenly body.
I felt for Neil when he had to tackle the difficult questions on the death of his little girl, Karen. You can tell it still affected him due to the lack of his ability to speak about it. So sad.
yup, his eyes even watered. true american hero
One of the many reasons he hid from the ravenous public eye.
he had the same look when he lied about landing on the moon
@@gabrielsansar6187 cool theory
I can't believe some ignorant conspiracy theorists still believe it was fake.
At 13. 59 Neil Armstrong speaks in answer to losing his Daughter (1962) visibly still, traumatised and upset strongly holding emotion in. Greatest empathy for him, I know exactly what that feels like. I lost my beautiful Daughter she was 16 , she went away to Heaven, very hard to live with, you never come to terms with the loss. over time you learn to live with it. The Good Doctor who came out to talk me, said keep busy, work is good, take your mind off things. Just like Neil Armstrong said he went to work and carried on and kept busy. One thing I am pretty sure of, when he walked on the moon he thought of his Daughter, and in that moment thought I am just a little bit closer to my beautiful Daughter.
At the very end of the moonwalk, after Aldrin had returned to Eagle, Armstrong took an unscheduled walk to the edge of a nearby crater. It's said he placed a picture of his daughter there.
@@Tim22222 thank you, you gave a thump in my heart (in a good way).💕
They portrayed his dealing with it really well in First Man (2018)
@@Bertiesghost thank you I will look for that💕
My father cried when watching this moon landing. Americans need to get back to doing great things again.
Now we cry when schools are shot up
We don't cry now. We whine endlessly. About anything and everything. You are correct. We do need to get back to doing great again.
@Flat earth is New Jerusalem Yes, and so is your IQ.
Jim Barr Official your father cried over a movie
@Flat earth is New Jerusalem Fool. Wear a pointy hat made of foil and feel superior in your lonely little corner.
He’s so humble. This is such a remarkable interview
He's not humble, but eaten alive by a feeling of guilt.
@@MacLuckyPTP Wilful stupidity is not a particularly endearing quality, especially when applied to the greatest technical accomplishment of the 20th century.
Awesome man. How about interviewing people who studied under him after the flight? Too bad we don't seem to have any teaching videos
America’s moment. And the man who saved the mission by guiding the LEM manually in the seconds before landing. Imagine for a moment if he had frozen up and failed. Then compare the overwhelming sense of devastation that would have followed with the exultation around the world following the mission’s success. Neil Armstrong steered history in America’s direction.
Love this. He seemed so open in this interview...well, considering how private he's been over the years!
There was a lot he couldn't say about what really happened.
@@neilarmstrongsson795 Reading/listening to the real-time audio from Apollo 11 is fascinating. You're obviously quite the fan of his, hence the username, so you've probably heard it already. 👍
He reminds me of my father, similar age and demeanor. Others may not understand him, but I immediately get him.
Michael O'Brien he’s a liar.
firetheho and Christopher, I'll bite. What did Armstrong "lie" about? At you two moon landing deniers? Is that your Shtick? If that's what you two are on about, just know that you're idiots.
You caught Neil Armstrong in a rare mood . He was notoriously known for hating to give interviews especially public ones.
Many people point out how uncomfortable, unemotional and reserved all of the astronauts were when talking to the press and others when they first cam back from the.Moon. Amazing regardless.
there's a reason why they felt so reserved and reticent, and it's because of what they discovered while they were up there, and what they were bound to once they arrived back on earth. there's so much they felt they couldn't reveal that has already been revealed by other parties since their epic journey. the moon isn't just some satellite ~375,000km from us, there's a lot more to it than those 'people in the know' are willing to reveal
Good point. The documentary „a funny thing happened on the way to the moon“. It may surprise you
Any person who actually accomplished something like that would proudly and freely give numerous interviews calmly, relaxed and articulate , look again at the one he gave with Buzzed and Collins… you don’t need to be an expert to clearly see all three were uncomfortable… That’s how liars give interviews… The moon is plasma, not a rock some Freemasons can land on… The earth is unequivocally an immovable Plane less earthquakes in a closed system, not a spinning space rock in a soul lure system… Peace
@@STAG162 casting fairly tales to cover the truth is not honorable… the moon is simply the lesser light for our immovable plane earth realm… The globe lie and the soul lure system was supposed to be the last lie we all were told just after Santa Claus but our parents and their parents before didn’t catch on to the deception, enough is enough… Peace
They got tired of the redundant questions.They knew it was part of their job to be ambassadors of NASA to keep things in a good light for funding.
What a man ! what an amazing extraordinary person!
Humans were lucky to have him.
Will always be missed our superheroes
I was born a few months later, but this man has been a main influence in my own life for some reason RIP Neil
Hes right up there with colmbus
A liar has been a main influence in your life?
@@jjwest1272
Please get help.
@@57andstillkicking nah he doesn’t deserve help
@@jjwest1272 Wilful stupidity is not a particularly endearing quality, especially when applied to the greatest technical accomplishment of the 20th century.
Thanks to my country Australia, the world was able to watch the first images of the luna landing. The scientists at Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes were brilliant!
Yes they were, it makes me proud to be an Aussie. For those Hoaxers out there, how did they fake that?
7 22 19 Hey Jules Nagbunga, Yes, couldn't have had the transmissions without the Aussies! I was just reading about their contriburion. I am a bit slow... Be well. v
P.S.: Makes me feel HAPPY how the whole Earth can feel as ONE! v
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One of my fondest memories was to meet this incredible man. It was at the 2002(?) Reno National Championship Air Races where I was a crewmember for one of the race planes. It was a very impromptu stop for a cocktail with a beautiful young woman and former Playboy bunny who I had met the evening before. Her grandfather who was there, told us to meet him at a particular motorhome in the VIP area across from the home pilon. The motorhome was nestled in the midsh of several others, with a white fence around it. They were inside the motorhome when we arrived, but a hostess from one of the casinos downtown came out to let us in, and seated us just outside, and took our orders for drinks saying that "Lee, Bill, and Neil" would be right out. The only one I knew there was Kimberly, having only just met her grandfather. I had no idea who "Lee, Bill, and Neil" even were, so we sat back to enjoy our drinks and enjoy each other's company. The racing was over for the day, save for the last Unlimited class heat race for Saturday. The race planes were gathering on the apron right in front of us, when the door opened and out came our hostess followed by three gentlemen, one wearing a red and white flight suit, the others both dressed in casual attire. The only one I recognized was Bill Destifanti, the pilot of the Unlimited racer "Voodoo", a gold class contender and familiar face from my 18 or so years of crewing for our own racer. Then, to my utter amazement, the other two fellows took off their sunglasses as they introduced themselves first, to Kimberly, her grandfather, then to me. "Hi. I'm Lee Bailey...F.Lee Bailey. Please call me Lee. And I'm Neil, pleased to meet both of you.",as we shook hands. Then Lee started joking with Neil, telling him it would be impolite to Kimberly for him not to give her his last name. "Armstrong" was all he said. I could have been knocked over so easily, I had just shaken hands with Neil frickin Armstrong!!! That's not the end of the story by far. But suffice it to say that meeting Neil Armstrong that way, sharing a drink, watching the heavily modified P51s, Sea Furies, Corsairs race in the late afternoon sun in an ultra blue sky and talking airplanes with him was a moment I'll never forget.
@odiupicku, life must be very difficult for you. And I'm OK with that.
@@thanksfernuthin You're story involving
You're story involving Armstrong and a Playboy girl is about as real as Santa Claus and the moon landing they faked in '69. If it talks like a govt troll and sounds like a gov troll, then it's a govt troll embedded in social media.
Every one knows what Neil said, but does anyone know what Buzz said when he stepped foot in the moon?
Aldrin's first words after he set foot on the Moon were “Beautiful view”, to which Armstrong asked “Isn't that something? Magnificent sight out here.” Aldrin answered, “Magnificent desolation
Must have been a nice night in the desert on earth. Do these sound like pre-rehearsed lines.?
@@helpstopanimalabuse8153 : As opposed to what? Please give the only acceptable statement they would have made from the moon.
After all, you're the only one who knows, right?
Rest in peace Neil. You will forever be in our hearts along with the rest of the apollo crew.
A Worldwide hero. Thank you SIR
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I want Mr. Armstrong on some form of American currency. It's a fitting tribute to a true American hero.
I agree, put him on the $10 bill, what did Alexander Hamilton ever do that was so great?
Makes sense.
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Mark Lupo you didn’t pay attention to anything he said did you?
Nice idea, but Neil himself would hate it.
THANK YOU so much for sharing this awesome, breathtaking video !!!