Comment The geek inside me is dying a little (Score 1) 480
Well, I'm absolutely not related to this great pilot, I wasn't even born when he took his giant step, yet...
As a guy whose first (and of course unfulfilled) vocation at 6 yo was astronaut (sorry, firemen, you're still too close to the ground), who watched documentaries on space and astronautics over and over again, who attended an astronomy club at 14, who had a large poster of the man in situ above the bed (I know, it was Aldrin actually), and whose most notable deed in the domain was helping in ruining an innocent bystander's crocodile shoes after a hazardous SaturnV model rocket launch...
call me stupid but today, I feel a bit like an orphan.