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Topic: Stuck in an elevator with Neil Armstrong
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mjanovec
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posted 12-05-2005 01:30 PM
   
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Originally posted by DavidH:
After the speech, I worked my way up front, and he walked along the rope keeping the crowd back shaking hands, shaking hands with several people, then skipping down a little ways and resuming. He shook hands with several people before me, got to me, paused, and skipped down a bit. Can't imagine it was anything personal.
It doesn't sound much like a "refusal" (that you earlier stated), but merely your hand was one of hundreds in the crowd that he missed or bypassed in order to keep moving. If you had been standing face to face with him in a small group setting and you thrust out your hand, he looked at you, then walked away...now THAT would have been a "refusal."  |
mikepf
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posted 12-06-2005 05:46 PM
Well, the closest I can come to this actually happening was a couple of years ago when I used the "head" on board the USS Hornet, while Ed Mitchell was using the next stall. It really didn't seem to be an appropriate place to start a conversation.
Then there was the time when I arrived a bit early at a Gene Kranz book signing and didn't realize until he said "Excuse me son" and squeezed by me that he had been standing near me for at least 5 minutes while we looked at books in the same section. Doh!
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Duke Of URL
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posted 12-06-2005 08:59 PM
Here's an awkward situation for you: You enter a men's room and realize the individual who just finished zipping up is none other than Neil Armstrong. You express your abundant admiration. He then puts his hand out to shake.....Personally, I'd feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis. |
Astro Bill
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posted 12-06-2005 09:19 PM
This thread has taken a turn from stuck in an elevator to embarrassed in a men's room. Seems like we want to be near Neil Armstrong but we cannot think of anything to say to him when the opportunity presents itself. |
Moonwalker1954
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posted 12-07-2005 11:45 AM
Duke, funny that you mentionned that (encounter in men's room) as it actually happened to me in New-Jersey at the UACC show with Dick Gordon and...no we didn't shake hands!Pierre-Yves |
mikepf
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posted 12-07-2005 12:51 PM
My apologies Astro Bill for distracting from your original question. It just got me thinking of my real accidental close encounters. I think I would ask NA about his Gemini flight. I have read many accounts of what happened, but I've never felt I've had a real sense (or rather a clear picture in my mind) of what the spacecraft was doing while the malfunction was happening. If one of us happened to have a Gemini model with us in the elevator, all the better!
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Astro Bill
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posted 12-07-2005 06:08 PM
I feel the same way about the NA's Gemini mission. I saw the TV special but it is hard to imagine spinning that fast. I would have lost my breakfast and yesterday's dinner. "Was the capsule tumbling AND spinning at the same time?" I would ask Neil this question. |
Duke Of URL
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posted 12-07-2005 07:37 PM
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Originally posted by Astro Bill:
This thread has taken a turn from stuck in an elevator to embarrassed in a men's room.
Wait until we get around to "embarrassed in an elevator and stuck in a men's room". And you know it'll happen sooner of later with the bunch of coconuts who post here. [This message has been edited by Duke Of URL (edited December 07, 2005).] |
drut
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posted 12-09-2005 01:47 PM
I'd ask why he chose the F-8 for the DFBW when he was in charge of that program. |
RandyH
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posted 12-12-2005 09:34 PM
If any of you get a chance, you go right ahead and swipe my question(s)... and get back to me, OK?'Are there any new aircraft or flying sports that you'd like to try, such as paragliding? Were there aircraft you did not get to fly, but wanted to?' |
Spacebug
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From: Yacolt WA USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 12-24-2005 11:27 AM
I guess I would ask him if he liked to fish---This is one thing I know I can talk about without making a idiot of myself--- If this didn't go anywhere, I guess the next question would be---Would you like to come over after this for dinner? I cook a great Meatloaf! |
MCroft04
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posted 12-24-2005 02:49 PM
I'd ask him about the incident at Smith Ranch when Neil, flying with Chuck Yeager in the back seat, stuck a T33 in the soft mud, even though Chuck supposedly warned him not to land there. Apparently the details have become fuzzy in both Neil and Chuck's memories (see "First Man by James Hansen, pages 185-188), but it would be fun to hear Neil tell the story from his perspective. |
zee_aladdin
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posted 12-25-2005 10:55 AM
I was having lunch in Hollywood one time and Val Kilmer was sitting right behind me and Mel Gibson was sitting across the table. But out of respect, I just enjoyed their presence, instead of jumping up and talking to them (Like many women did!).Anyways, This is what I would ask Armstrong: 'What do you think about people having sex in Space or on the Moon?' ... Now I know that many of you have thought about sex in Space !!!!  |
ivorwilliams
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From: Welwyn Garden City, UK
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 12-26-2005 09:55 PM
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Originally posted by Astro Bill:
So far we have determined that if you were stuck in an elevator with Neil Armstrong most of you would say nothing. What if you were stuck in an elevator with Cindy Crawford?
I'm afraid I would be forced to ask "going down?" |
fabfivefreddy
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posted 12-26-2005 10:54 PM
I would be happy with a simple hand shake and hello. I already have enough autographs. -Tahir |
spaceman1953
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posted 01-03-2006 08:03 PM
Since we've gone "to the mens' room", Tim Cash and I "crashed" a press conference Gene Cernan was having in New Castle, Indiana back in 1974 (?) while he was in the area for the dedication of the Wilbur Wright Memorial Birthplace in nearby Millville, Indiana......Cernan gets up to go to the men's room....we were in the basement of a bank.....and I'm sitting there nearly wetting MY pants, trying to decide if that is the right place to follow him into to ask for an autograph ! LOL ! ! ! !Gas, by the way, was 56.9-cents a gallon....the most I had EVER paid for fuel for my VW bug, and I swore I would SELL IT when gas his a dollar and NEVER drive again ! Oh, for the good old days.... Gene |
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