Neil Armstrong RIP

Farewell to a great American.

(Reuters) – U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, who took a giant leap for mankind when he became the first person to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 82, his family said on Saturday.

Armstrong died following complications from heart-bypass surgery he underwent earlier this month, the family said in a statement, just two days after his birthday on August 5.

As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. As he stepped on the dusty surface, Armstrong said: ““That’s one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Those words endure as one of the best known quotes in the English language.

via First man on moon Neil Armstrong dead at 82 | Reuters.

Anyone over the age of 30 years old, knows who this man is; he is testament to American greatness.

Which is why the United States Government needs to get OUT of the space business. The cold war is over and we have no need to be in the space business anymore.

This is because that the space program is nothing more than dressed up big Government statism. Nothing more, nothing less. Too many NASA persons have perished, in the pursuit of so-called “science.”  We need to privatize that entire system and allow free market forces to control it.

RIP to Neil Armstrong

 

2 thoughts on “Neil Armstrong RIP

  1. Hi pat,

    The US government spends more money with the military in a single year than it has spent with NASA in it’s entire history. If we put it in perspective, I think NASA (along with the Soviet Union and, latter, the Russian federation) has demonstrated to us that great things can be achieved with very little investment. I think that space exploration will probably be mankind’s greatest adventure and most surely in the long term it will be our only option of survival as a species. I am not saying that there aren’t much more important and urgent things to be taken care of first, or that private companies should not have a role in space exploration, but I don’t think the US government should simply privatize it. Space is a matter for all mankind, not just for private enterprises looking after their profits (and I am not saying it in a pejorative way). I am not american, and I actually vote for the communist party in my country (yes… I DO follow your blog: others ideas help me question my own), so, as you may guess, I strongly disagree with a lot of things about the US internal and foreign policy, but I have always admired how the US has given “new worlds” to the world through space exploration and taken a lead role in humanity’s pursuit for knowledge. The cold war is over, that’s a fact, and that should be just another reason to continue, along with other countries, to advance our understanding of the universe.

    Thanks for reading! 🙂

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