Who is Neil Armstrong?

[nrico2006]

Came across this article, good read.  No mention of Mr Gorski though!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8133835.stm

[tyrone86]

Wasn't he 'the bard of dunclug'?

[ziggysego]

Saw that article yesterday. Was very good.

Used to follow him on Twitter, in the hope of hearing some interesting moon stories. Never spoke of it.

[Minder]

The actual programme is on BBC I player

[lob her in lad]

Watched it on iplayer yesterday, very good show and sheds a lot of light on how much pressure and strain was put onto the first moon walkers and astronauts. They were the first global media stars and it was very tough for them. For ten years or so when Armstrong was a uni lecturer he spent an hour or two each morning signing autographs in his office for the public. He finally gave up signing them when he found out people were just selling them and as a result he hasn't signed one in over 20 years.

[ludermor]

I thought i read here that he was an actor!!!

[lob her in lad]

I thought i read here that he was an actor!!!

That is quite true, he played the back end of a donkey in his schools nativity play one year and a tree the next, very versatile he was.

[Hardy]

Still and all - you'd expect the BBC to know, wouldn't you?

[pintsofguinness]

Saw that article yesterday. Was very good.

Used to follow him on Twitter, in the hope of hearing some interesting moon stories. Never spoke of it.

I wonder why that was....

[Gnevin]

Saw that article yesterday. Was very good.

Used to follow him on Twitter, in the hope of hearing some interesting moon stories. Never spoke of it.

I wonder why that was....

And if he talked about it non stop you'd wonder why that was 

[Tony Baloney]

I'm a believer, as the song goes, but I do see Pints point of view that Armstrong's refusal to discuss the moon landing does give credence to the stories of it being faked. Why on earth wouldn't you want to discuss something you've built your entire career around culminating in a momentous event that we're still discussing 40 years later?

[Minder]

I'm a believer, as the song goes, but I do see Pints point of view that Armstrong's refusal to discuss the moon landing does give credence to the stories of it being faked. Why on earth wouldn't you want to discuss something you've built your entire career around culminating in a momentous event that we're still discussing 40 years later?

Maybe he just isn't a gobshite.

[Gnevin]

I'm a believer, as the song goes, but I do see Pints point of view that Armstrong's refusal to discuss the moon landing does give credence to the stories of it being faked. Why on earth wouldn't you want to discuss something you've built your entire career around culminating in a momentous event that we're still discussing 40 years later?

And every AI winner you know talks non stop about it . A lot of them don't even watch the tapes of the games and would only talk about it if asked .

[lob her in lad]

I'm a believer, as the song goes, but I do see Pints point of view that Armstrong's refusal to discuss the moon landing does give credence to the stories of it being faked. Why on earth wouldn't you want to discuss something you've built your entire career around culminating in a momentous event that we're still discussing 40 years later?

What I got from the doco listening to the other astronauts was the fact that after 40 years they couldn't differenciate between what they actually did or what they have led themselves to believe they did. This was because of the countless interviews they had to give with the same questions being asked over and over. So as time went on they made stuff up to avoid the monotony. Can you imagine how much harder it would be for Armstrong with him being the first man on the moon. I'm sure he would have been in a lot more demand than the rest of them Aldrin included. Apparently he was a very very shy man who lived in the hills with the missus and kids in a house with no electricity or running water.

[whiskeysteve]

Wasn't he 'the bard of dunclug'?

He's Ballymenas finest space cadet