A small step for any man, 43 years after his giant leap for mankind.
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Neil Armstrong, the 1st man on the moon, has died at age 82
+NBC News reports that Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday, weeks after heart surgery and days after his 82nd birthday.
Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, and he radioed back to Earth the historic news of "one giant leap for mankind." He spent nearly three hours walking on the moon with fellow astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.
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I don’t know what to say that hasn’t already been said about this wonderful, skilled, and lucky man (hey, he got to go to the moon, didn’t he? I’d call that lucky, given how many candidates there were).
I wanted to be there, walking alongside him, as I wanted to be with Valentina Tereshkova and Sally Ride, breaking barriers, setting records, making history, and being in space looking down at our planet.
May he inspire us all to go beyond what we know.
Well said, Marina.