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1969: Pink Floyd play live at the BBC as Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon

PINK FLOYD

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Posted: 2nd, April 2013 | In: Flashback, Music | Comment


NBC says Neil Young got higher than Neil Armstrong

WHEN Neil Armstrong died, the Daily Telegraph lamented “her” life in photos. When the first man to tread on the moon died, NBC paid tribute to Neil Young:

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Posted: 26th, August 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment


Nasa admits faking Neil Armstrong moon photo

THEY faked the moon landing. Nasa fudged the truth. Photos of  Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, are rare. He had the camera, you see.  So, what we have are lots of shots of Buzz Aldrin (Moon Man No.2). And that famous portrait of  Aldrin (see left) was doctored.

Nasa explain:

The simple answer is that when Neil took the original photograph, AS11-40-5903, the top of Buzz’s OPS [antenna] was at the top edge of the field-of-view and, therefore, that the original image necessarily does not include the antenna. When the image was prepared for release for publication soon after the mission, it was cropped at the bottom and sides, and a black area was added at the top to give the released version visual balance.

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Posted: 26th, August 2012 | In: Technology | Comments (2)


Daily Telegraph says Neil Armstrong was ‘first woman in space’

NEIL Armstrong was the fist man on the moon, but was not the first man to report on a famous person’s death and scream ‘FIRST’ on the internet. In the great race to say ‘I beat the rest’, the Daily Telegraph tweets:

@telegraphobits : Obit: Neil ArmstrongFirst American woman in space

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Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment


‘Nerdy engineer’ Neil Armstrong: a life in 60 photos

NEIL Armstrong has died. The Korea war fighter pilot and self-titled “nerdy engineer” was for a time the most famous man in the world. You know what he did. On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew took “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”. Neil Armstrong and the Nasa team made humanity look up…

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Former astronaut John Glenn bows as he is introduced by President Jimmy Carter in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Cape Canaveral on Oct. 1, 1978. Glenn and other spacemen received medals from the president. Others are, from left, Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Charles Conrad, Alan Shepard and Mrs. Betty Grissom, whose husband died in the Apollo 1 fire. (AP Photo/Jeff Taylor)

Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment