NASA has confirmed today that Neil Armstrong has passed away, marking the end of his decades-long struggle to prove that he has indeed been alive since his first trip into space on the Titan II on March 16, 1966.
Numerous people at in the space program have claimed that they participated in the cover-up. Buzz Aldrin went so far as to say that whenever engineers contacted them in space, “I would mimic Neil’s voice as well as I could to tell everyone we were fine.”
Armstrong had always pointed to the fact that he had successfully passed every physical a doctor had administered year after year, but finally decided it was time to pass on.
Because Armstrong has chosen not to arbitrate against the determination that he has finally died, NASA is stripping him of all his famous accomplishments, including his presence on Apollo 11 and his world-famous quote upon touching the surface of the moon: “That’s one small step for man, one giant step for mankind.”
The official first words spoken on the moon will now be Aldrin’s asking, “Hey, they should be able to get us back, right?”
