Neil Armstrong

It was a rainy night in New York, we couldn't see the moon in the sky -- but we watched him come forth in that clumsy getup and speak what at the time I thought was a banal remark but who cares about that now?  it is the remark, forever.  Though the future may not show it as a giant leap for mankind.  

In honor of Neil, who had a wonderful gratifying life and needs no mourning, you might check out (I just did) the Wikipedia article "Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories."  Amazingly lengthy and detailed dismantling of something that -- according to the article -- 28% of Russians and apparently almost everybody in Cuba believes.  

"By 1977 the Hare Krishna magazine  Back to Godhead  called the landings a hoax. The reason they gave is that the Sun is 93,000,000 miles away and according to Vedas the Moon is 800,000 miles farther away than that, making the Moon nearly 94,000,000 miles away. To travel that span in 91 hours would require a speed of more than a million miles per hour, 'a patently impossible feat even by the scientists' calculations'."