"The Life of Neil Armstrong: Myth and Reality," with James R. Hansen

A Royal Astronomical Society of Canada live stream presentation of the Ruth Northcutt Memorial Lecture, which was held at York University, Toronto on June 15, 2019.
Lecture starts at 8:33

[@alandyer910]

Wonderful! Thank you for producing and posting the lecture.

[@richardkirk5098]

I hated the movie. They focused on the darkest most joyless aspects of Neil’s life. Also made the greatest adventure in history seem flat and boring.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

I wonder if there will be any juicy stories about the Artemis crews. There certainly were plenty about the Sixties astronauts, although they took a long time to come out.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

Yeager was Armstrong's worst test pilot. Woh! Now I'm roped in. Gonna have to read that book. I did read Yeager's autobiography, in 1986, and I do recall he had some criticisms of Armstrong.

[@JamesOberg]

I'm focused right now on the Yeager character lynching going on as part of the Ed Dwight legend, are you interested in collaborating on research?

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

​@@JamesOberg Thanks for the interest, but my interest in apace history is as a casual observer. I have no dog in that particular fight. Not even sure if you mean lynching OF Yeager or BY Yeager! BTW I think of myself as mostly a techie, but increasingly the management and human relations sides of the Space Program are what I find fascinating. Now, if you want to know about energy, climate, and the parts of futurism connected to those things, I can deluge you with all kinds of stuff. That's my real bailiwick, since about 2002. Actually, I don't even know who Ed Dwight is, but in a couple of minutes, I will. EDIT: Oh, yeah. I think I did hear something, but the memory faded. Ed's path was a slow and twisting path. The kind of long, strange trip that I admire, but wouldn't recommend to follow. You can still ascend higher if you rise faster, if you are able to.

[@JamesOberg]

@@ronaldgarrison8478 = Your comments are sharply focused and will send me off on promising new tangents, so please don't be a stranger.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@JamesOberg Thanks again. I found a video of you and bookmarked it, editing the title to remind me to keep an eye on it.

[@Katrina_Ince]

Thank you to all of the AV team who worked so hard during the GA - happy this lecture was posted. Lots of cool new (to me) information

[@petervisima4798]

Awesome video with great production, camera switching and editing. Well done!