First Man on Moon Neil Armstrong Dead at 82

[Prospero]

RIP a man whose achievement can never ever been downgraded. o other human will ever be the first to step on the moon.

Isn't it strange how that wonderful time - the first men in space and then the culminating event of the first humans to walk on the moon has faded in the public imagination. Perhaps we needed to pursue that outward urge - and land on Mars. All the space station and space walks after that first landing have otherwise seemed like afterthoughts.I sense that the dream of interplanetary travel means little to anyone young these days. Am I wrong?

[danthepoetman]

Many people think that we only went to the moon once…

And do you remember, Prospero, the effect of the first earth pictures from afar, from close to the moon?
Do you remember how much of a change the Apollo program have brought to people’s perspective on ourselves humans, how it made earth, our presence on earth, look like and feel like from these moments on? It’s as if we suddenly all had realized the diminutive impact of our presence to the universe, as if we suddenly all had realize that we were all in the same, minuscule boat together, floating in an eternity of nothingness, and how in the end, we all had to change our behaviour. Everybody was daydreaming, the day after the first moon landing…
I guess you’re right: we forgot very rapidly, and today, it doesn’t mean anything anymore…