Reply With QuoteThat's a very cool picture.
Humble, thoughtful and engaging. A real superhero of our times and the only person in existence not within the camera frame in this wonderful image. Fly well.
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
That's a very cool picture.
RIP Michael, only Buzz left of the Apollo 11 crew now
Great picture. I've had the Earth rise pic below on my iPad home page for a number of years now and never get tired of looking at it.
I love books about the space race and Carrying the Fire is the best book I've read written by one of the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo astronauts.
RiP.
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Michael Collins - from what I've seen of him talking - seemed to be the most engaging of the Apollo 11 crew. RIP.
Another Apollo star twinkling up there.
Just past a full moon,
I’ll go and give him a wave.
Rest in peace.
Indeed, although if you give the moon a salute, you'd be doing what Neil's wife asked us to do to remember him. From now on, I'll be doing it for him and Mike, and for Buzz when his time comes.Originally Posted by John Wall
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Some journey he did alone round the dark side, what a man. Very funny in interviews too.
RIP.
Thanks for posting this.
What a wonderful shot and a reminder that there is a whole universe over which we hold no dominion.
I'll download the book.
I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Here he is with a post mission tache and Speedy.
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Just in from a nightshift to hear this. A hugely engaging character, arguably the most straightforward of the Apollo 11 crew and a sharp sense of humour too.
Carrying the Fire is a superb book, a must read for anyone interested in the Space Race. His account of being labelled the loneliest man in the universe was shot through with his matter of fact attitude and wry humility that summed him up to a tee.
Rest in peace Michael, you were a unique and humble hero.
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RIP to a humble hero - think that’s a great reason to give 13 minutes to the moon another listen.
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As Bigvic said, Collins wrote far and away the best of the astronaut memoirs - richly engaging, neither submerged beneath technical detail nor confined to NASA-approved PR nuggets, it's the only one which really articulates an answer to the inevitable question "what was it like, to fly to the Moon?".
I shall raise a glass this evening.
OP, that has got to be one of the coolest photographs ever taken.
Amazing o think that every human in existence is in the frame, apart from Michael Collins.
Love that, D.I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Here he is with a post mission tache and Speedy.
As he put it, when describing the experience of being on the far side of the Moon, alone in the CSM while Armstrong and Aldrin were on the surface: "I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the Moon, and one plus God knows what on this side."
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