http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19381098BBC.co.uk wrote:US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, has died aged 82.
Until he died, he was, quite simply, the single most historically important person alive at the time, on the entire planet, whose importance was already known. No one else whose name will be remembered as long, and as well, and who will serve as such a massive inspiration to anyone who sets out to do something impossible. His name will still be known when the great politicians and warlords of today are long forgotten.
He was the first of us bare-naked apes to set foot on a different object of the solar system, he was the first of only a dozen who achieved what billions only dreamed of pretty much since humans existed.
And to the end, he remained humble, he always expressed the easily forgotten fact that he was standing on the shoulders of giants and was really only the tip of a massive iceberg of people involved.
They managed to drag him over here about 13 years or so back to give him the "Golden Camera" award for his outstanding TV work, being the star of the greatest TV program ever. Seriously, I just saw his TV obit on the 'net, they showed clips of his acceptance speech. He immediately started to thank his costume designers, prop master, etc., using these actual terms. So he even kept a sense of humor about himself.
Farewell, sir.