August 25th, 2012 - Neil Armstrong, aged 82, the first man on the moon is dead. I was shocked about the news, just recently I saw one of his very rare interviews that he gave last march, where he talked about his history-making adventure on the moon, the dangers of training to be an astronaut, etc.
He was always my hero. As a kid of not more than 4 years, my family and me watched the now legendary scenes from the moon, and I remember also the landing of the capsule in the ocean, and the smiling astronauts in the quarantine-chamber.
He was one of the twelve men who walked on the moon, but he was the first who left his footprints in the grey dust of this companion of our blue planet.
May he rest in peace.
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