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I remember listening to it on the radio on the way home from the annual beach vacation, and telling my Dad to hurry up so that I could watch the landing on the TV.
My Mother later dealt with Neil Armstrong in his subsequent job in some Federal position and asked me if I had ever heard of him before. I almost fell out of my chair.
These men were giants (admittedly standing on the shoulders of many others), and the Apollo 11 astronauts were on a level with Colombus or Magellan, IMHO.
Godspeed, gents.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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