netzerkaiser wrote:netzerkaiser wrote:YumYum74 wrote:I would say Neil Armstrong. I'm kind of a space nerd, but born too late to have witnessed the Apollo era.
Neil Armstrong is a truly great call. Such a humble heroic man... I mean this just defies belief...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJDbj9Vp5wThanks Brother, great call.
Also, he must have hit ground at some force there? Legend.
"Later analysis suggested that if he had ejected half a second later, his parachute would not have opened in time. His only injury was from biting his tongue"
"According to Chris Kraft, a March 1969 meeting among Slayton, George Low, Bob Gilruth, and Kraft determined that Armstrong would be the first person on the Moon, in part because NASA management saw him as a person who did not have a large ego." Certainly Buzz had huge ego, indisputable...