"ARWadsworth" wrote:
brass monkey wrote:
"Mike P" wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 21:09:10 +0100, ARWadsworth wrote:

I hope his Saturn V ride to heaven is a smooth one :-)

Fly safe, Commander Armstrong. A true hero to many, and especially
us nerds.

+1
Those guys were very stupid/very brave/both.

They we also very intelligent. I have met some of them.

Yeah I got to meet Gene Cernan briefly around 1996 when I did some
consultancy work for NASA. One of the few (at that time) managerial types
who understood and had an interest in my line of work and was able to
discus it coherently.

BTW Tickets are still available to have dinner with some of the Apollo
astronauts. It's well worth the money. Not everyone can say that they have
had dinner with Buzz Aldrin and Fred Haise.

That would be very tempting.