Fadly
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the sheer physical, psychological and emotional price paid by Neil Armstrong and his family throughout the course of the Apollo program cannot be understated. ppl may claim the moon landing was "faked" but the treacherous experiences he lived thru were real as dirt:
ejected from a burning aircraft over korea at 20 years old. landed behind enemy lines
lost his 2 year old daughter karen to a brain tumor before she turned 3
house burned down. family lost everything
watched 3 friends burn alive in the apollo 1 capsule. grissom white and chaffee. 27 seconds
gemini 8 thruster stuck open. spacecraft spinning at 1 revolution per second. figured it out before blacking out
lunar landing research vehicle lost all control 200 feet up. ejected less than 1 second before impact. walked back to his desk and started doing paperwork
and his family paid a high price as well:
janet chain-smoked through gemini 8 alone in their house with a 6 year old and a 2 year old while her husband spun out of control 160 miles up. mark cried all night asking where daddy was
during apollo 11 she sent the boys to bed before the landing because she couldn't hold it together in front of them. woke them up when he stepped on the moon. cried all night after
reporters camped outside their house for MONTHS after apollo 11. mark couldn't play in his own yard. eric hid under his bed
neil came home from the moon and emotionally never came back. janet told people magazine "he was gone so much. physically and emotionally. the moon was his mistress"
eric dropped out of high school. struggled for years with being "the astronaut's son"
divorced after 38 years. 1994
just thought you all should know that about him.
i respect the man (and i do mean MAN), do you?
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