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Message: <blockquote data-quote="p238shooter" data-source="post: 1881398" data-attributes="member: 24583">My most respected American Pilot Hero.  He flew for real, live hand on the stick (thruster valves) looking at a line drawn on the side window and comparing it with the foreign horizon. Not knowing what the landing site conditions might be, not with the computer assisted razzmatazz like I have in my planes to land in my neighbors back yards as I have today.  He trusted the guys in the back rooms back home using slide rules for calculations, and he did the rest.  To me, this was the ultimate trust in who is backing you, and absolutely No Fear of what might be ahead.It is a shame we do not have the capability to duplicate this venture 43 years later.  Wifey's uncle was head of the team who designed the spacesuits, and knew him well.  Amazing they got there, absolutely phenomenal they got back.  RIP Armstrong, and thanks for the memories no one else will ever duplicate.  I do not think anyone who was alive at that time will not remember where they were or what they were doing at that moment you made history and made America proud.</blockquote>