One of my heroes and an inspiration for me to enter Science. Really sad news. RIP Neil.

I'd be 12 years old when he first walked on the moon, according to Wiki it was 20 July, all I remember is my brother and I waking up in the middle of the night (2/3/4am ?) and sneaking in the living room & sitting really close to the TV set with the sound turned down so as not to wake up our parents, to watch the moon walk live, it was a terrible picture and at times it was upside down and then our dad came in and asked what the hell we thought we were doing (I think we had school the same day) and when we told him instead of bollacking us he sat down and told us to turn it up a bit.

Later, in the autumn term our science teacher wrote to NASA and asked for some photos and they sent out a schools pack with lots of 12x8" glossy full colour pictures taken on the moon - the TV pictures had been in B&W, out of focus and very poor (no kidding) !

I do recall standing at the window one night looking at the moon during one of the moon missions and thinking that there were two men walking around up there, thats not something that kids have been able to think for a generation now...

RIP.

The greatest hoax of all time? Landing on the moon that is, not Neil Armstrong dying.

Oh look ! It's a conspiracy theorist. If you think man did not land on the moon you're wrong.

RIP Neil Armstrong.

One of the greatest pilots ever. The reason Amstrong landed on the moon was that he was the only (?) man with the skill to do it for the first time. An absolute professional who then enchewed the spotlight for the rest of his life.

RIP Neil

Oh and anyone who things the moon landings were fake is talking from their glutenous maximus

Aye, 40-odd years to go from landing men on the moon in a tin can, to dropping a shopping trolley on Mars

The real conspiracy theory is that they bumped into aliens on the way and have been sworn to secrecy ever since.

The real conspiracy theory is that they bumped into aliens on the way and have been sworn to secrecy ever since.

Shame that his achievment was tarnished by his use of EPO

First Lance, then Neil. I bet Alexander Armstrong is kakking himself

Like MF, I have similar memories of the moon landing.

I remember the launch (and a few others around that time), but more than anything I remember my dad coming into my (Thunderbirds wallpaper decorated!) bedroom and getting me up to watch it. Grainy black and white pictures, the wait for the touchdown after the seperation and then the landing followed by those few footsteps.

Then back to bed.

I wouldn't even have been five when it happened, but it remains etched into my brain, and I'd suspect that it's largely responsible for my love of SF ever since.

If only.

Oh, and for the doubters and nay sayers...

You do realise that this all took part at the height of the Cold War, and that the rocket and lander were tracked by both the USSR and Chinese, along with the radio broadcasts?

If there had been any suspicion of duplicitous behaviour, I'm sure one of these would have mentioned it by now....

The other thing that is coming to mind, and watching the old videos on YouTube, is the full understanding of everything that was going on, the stages of the Apollo rocket, the Command Module, the Lunar Module, the fact that only the top bit left the moon and left the landing stage behind, the maouvres that had to be done when in orbit to get the Lunar Module in position, and then finally the tiny capsule that returned to earth...

...all of this explained in painstaking detail on the BBC by James Burke and Patrick Moore who followed the Apollo missions live each evening and brought Science Fact (not Fiction) to us 1960s Space Kids - one of the earlier Apollo missions (8?) was the first manned rocket to orbit the moon and there was a genuine suspense as they went out of radio contact whilst "behind" the moon, all covered live on TV, like others its quite annoying when those who weren't even born suggest that none of this happened, we were there, we saw it live on TV, several brave men from two nations died during the American and Russian space missions, don't try and tell me I didn't see any of this with my own eyes