RIP Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), first man on the moon
Three days ago, astronaut Neil Armstrong died of complications after heart surgery. For a blog full of space-themed LEGO models (and recently obsessed with NASA’s latest adventures on Mars), it would be wrong to ignore this major news story. Neil Armstrong’s achievements, alongside all the other astronauts and cosmonauts of the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s, and today, have inspired many of our contributors and the builders we highlight here every day.
McWii of customBRICKS posted this a couple weeks ago to honor the anniversary of the moon landing in July. It’s only fitting that we highlight it here to honor the man who left so many footprints like this one on the moon (though the famous photograph is actually one of Buzz Aldrin’s footprints).
August 29th, 2012 at 12:20 am
Much as it pains me to say this – the man was a TRUE hero of mine, that ain’t his footprint – its the footprint of his fellow moon-walker on that historic date in 1969 – Buzz Aldrin*
* http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/wallpaper/photography/photos/milestones-space-photography/moon-footprint/
August 29th, 2012 at 3:27 am
The footprint actually belongs to Buzz: “Buzz made this footprint on a pristine surface so that he could then photograph it for study by soil mechanics experts.” (http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html)
August 29th, 2012 at 10:19 am
Sigh… I could swear I checked that; thanks for the correction. He certainly did leave plenty of other footprints just like this, though. ;-)