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Whilst I have huge respect and awe for Neil, his life will be celebrated by the people at large. I think the Black HN bar is best reserved for more obscure but

• anigbrowl 14y ago
  A valid view, (so no downvote) but I disagree. Armstrong faced many life-threatening failures as a test pilot and improvised his way out of them. A stuck thruster on a prototype lander sent it into a spin, and Armstrong offset it with an auxiliary thruster; another prototype rolled onto its side and he had to eject at 200 feet. No matter how much training one has had, the ability to diagnose and improvise under pressure gives him hacker status in my eyes.