Hello Richard,   
      
    LL>> Neil Armstrong, the 1st man [alleged] to have walked   
    LL>> on the Moon, is dead.  May he rest in peace.   
      
   RW>"Allegedly' huh?  KNow of anyone else that could reasonably   
   RW>lay claim to that one?   
      
   Yes.  A Frenchman by the name of Michel Ardan, as acknowledged   
   by Neil Armstrong himself -   
      
   "A hundred years ago, Jules Verne wrote a book about a voyage to   
   the Moon.  His spaceship, Columbia, took off from Florida and landed   
   in the Pacific Ocean after completing a trip to the Moon.  It seems   
   appropriate to us to share with you some of the reflections of the   
   crew as the modern-day Columbia completes its rendezvous with the   
   planet Earth and the same Pacific Ocean tomorrow."   
   - Neil Armstrong, during a TV broadcast on July 23, 1969   
      
   BTW, the name of the spaceship in Verne's novel was Columbiad,   
   not Columbia.  But other than that...   
      
   RW>I'll always remember watching that on the tube at a friend's house.   
      
   Yeah.  Stanley Kubrik was a great filmmaker.  :)   
      
   --Lee   
      
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