You can find more fascinating New York Times obituaries, year round, here and on our Twitter feed. Petraeus whom from our archives they would dine with, and why. And we asked Anderson Cooper, Cory Booker, Dominique Dawes, Tom Brokaw and David H. We relived the first steps on the moon and the speech that divided India and Pakistan. We mingled with criminals, leaders, protesters, artists and athletes, many who forever changed their professions. We heard the echoes of shots that reverberated in America and around the world. We wandered back into a fatal Alaskan odyssey and over the rainbow. Thanks for joining us this summer as we revisited some of the 200,000 memorable lives featured in The New York Times’s archive. Read the obituary “Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Dies at 82” One thing led to another and in our rediscovery we dispelled creeping loneliness in favor of love. She was still a space buff and in an email praised the obit. One reader that Sunday was a woman I had known and been fond of more than 50 years ago. The same could have been said for hundreds of millions of people around the world watching on television. You’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. “Roger, Tranquillity,” mission control replied. In the obituary, I continued the exchange between Armstrong and mission control: Ever so briefly, I was young again, responding to a deadline and waiting presses. As I wrote it, I felt the old surge of Apollo emotion returning. The Armstrong obituary I wrote ran above the fold on the front page on Sunday, Aug. Aldrin is living and so is the third astronaut, Michael Collins.) I doubt I will be up to the dawn-to-dawn workdays and multiple deadlines of yore, but a bit of the remembered excitement should be a tonic. Although I am now 82, my doctors seem to think I have a good chance of still being around for it. Just think, the 50th anniversary of the first moon walk is only three years away.

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