1,000 Years from now, long after the USA falls, people will still know the name Neil Armstrong.

[cbdo2007]

He is one of only a handful of people from our lifetimes that will still be talked about in 1,000 years. I am honored to have shared my time on Earth with him.

[jberryhill]

1. Yes

His name will live among the few whose names will always live.

He bore his singular place in humanity well.

[TheMadMonk]

2. Somebody clearly hasn't watched Futurama. /nt

[chknltl]

3. Dang! Never thought about it that way.

As a young teen, I shook his hand shortly after their return. They were being flown to cities around the world on Air Force One, our Jr. High class saw them at Templehof Airport in West Berlin Germany. WOW What an honor indeed. (Years later I got to shake hands with Joan Baez on her Diamonds and Rust Tour, honored to have done so but she is hardley even known by todays youngsters....)

[rug]

4. What I most remember from that night is not the grainy photo of him getting off the ladder.

It's the hundreds of people at mission command in Houston.

To take nothing away from him, he was selected by NASA to be the first, as they could have selected from several others.

The moon landing was, if nothing else, a massively coordinated effort of national resources more than an individual feat.

This is the aspect of history that most irks me. It wasn't Magellan who circumnavigated the globe, it was his surviving crew.

[cbdo2007]

6. Please....they were all on Terra Firma. He was on the fucking moon!

He was the first person to actually place his foot on another celestial body. In 1,000 years we'll probably have some type of civilization on some other planet or even on the moon and he was the first one. They were all sleeping in their own beds with their wives and kids and he was on the fucking moon!!! If you don't get it, I'll probably never convince you of it, but they choose him specifically because they knew he was the right person for the history books in 1,000 years to remember.

[rug]

9. Sorry, I don't subscribe to the Great Man theory of history.

What did he say, ""That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."

He had it right.

[Dustin DeWinde]

5. Why do you assume the usa will "fall" in a mere 1000 years?

The brits have controlled their tiny island for well over a thousand years. the Chinese have ruled themselves for over 5000 years as an independent nation. why wouldn't the USA last. at least that long?

Stars and stripes 4ever!!

[cbdo2007]

8. Some form of it may last 1,000 years but I bet it will only be 1/5 the size it is now and would be

unrecognizable to anyone alive today. Just a hunch, but I think we are currently in a slow decline.

[Dustin DeWinde]

15. sez u. America's best days are still ahead of us

[cthulu2016]

7. Yes, but a million years from now visiting aliens will only know Nixon

It is his name on the plaque on the moon.

[Frank Cannon]

11. No, they're all there. Even Collins.

[RagAss]

13. Poor Collins....he didn't even get to see the moon walk.

There was no onboard TV monitor in the Apollo 11 command module.

[Odin2005]

10. Sagan once mentioned that even tribal people in the New Guinea Highlands...

...know about Apollo 11 and who was on it.

[MFM008]

12. The first one who steps on Mars

will no doubt remember their fellow astronaut so long ago.

[cbdo2007]

16. Would be cool if that would happen sooner rather than later.

Obviously Armstrong expected it by now.

[cherokeeprogressive]

14. I know I will.

At least a thousand years.