May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
As significant a figure in the history of human exploration as Columbus, Magellan, or Cook. God rest his soul. I feel a little older today as I think back to a warm evening in 1969 and the stilled astonishment of seeing those images from the surface of the Moon. A titanic civilizational achievement that remains undimmed for me to this day.