Posted on 04/28/2021 9:50:01 AM PDT by rdl6989
Astronaut Michael Collins, one of the three members of the successful Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969, died Wednesday after battling cancer, his family said in a statement posted to Twitter. He was 90.
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It was a scenario they trained for and it was a true nightmare scenario for all. . .especially Collins.
The Daily Mail has a longer article.
RIP, American hero!
Agreed, see post 9. Ive often wondered how the lunar and command modules rejoined after liftoff from the moon. To me that must have been nerve wracking.
Thanks, when I first posted this it was barely more than a banner.
Apollo 11 mission and Prince Philip’s fascination
That WAS fascinating
Except that The Crown made these men out to be more like shallow jocks, and depicted Prince Philip as being disappointed in them (as they were portrayed). They were serious and brilliant engineers/scientists, and I’m sure Phil was actually highly impressed.
The 6 men that orbited the moon were, at the time, the loneliest humans in the universe being farther away from any human when going around the dark side.
RIP.
“Janet from Another Planet.”
I can’t remember the title but I recently bought a book for my son written about the Apollo engineers. My wife read it first and thought it was great with all the side stories of the challenges they had to overcome.
My son is an engineer at NASA .
Thanks for posting.
The launch vehicle weighed 6 million pounds. A whole lot of it was fuel.
I had to think about this for a minute. Then I saw the earth. Really incredible! RIP Michael Collins!
So did I. She played Natalie if I recall.....
Alan Shepard literally played golf on the moon.
Thank you. Was just going to link this marvelous song of tribute from Ian Anderson writer and principal leader of Jethro Tull. Some piercing commentary of the anthropoids on Earth who stare in fascination at the TV and the marvel that was that mission.
Anderson’s view was that Michael Collins was in the Command Module and a “blip” on the radar to the two walking on the moon— the loneliness of it all (he wished he was walking with them— a truly awesome feat in the history of Mankind).
Irritated as usual with NPR— Collins was NOT forgotten in the least, only by little dweebie millenial nobodies on public radio, brainless and trivial as always.
Collins led a very directed and principled life, and accomplished a great deal, as a role model, test pilot and highly intelligent American hero. Can believe that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were very GLAD to have him piloting the module to rendevous and dock with them, so they could return home. Collins trained in addition for the possibility they might have crashed on the surface and died- and he would pilot himself back to Earth.
The bravery and eeriness of this still is humbling. God Bless the memory of Michael Colling. And thanks again from a fellow Tull fan.
Yes.... we were with you “L.E.M.” The Lunar Excursion Module.
thanks again. have to say it was a really memorable time. whole family was at Canaveral for the launch of the thunderous Saturn V. The ground and air shook and... pulsed.
Collin’s wife was a Finnegan. Married for life, he and she were living in the Outer Banks, when she passed away in 2014. One tough woman— the Space Program- lot of unsung wives there, who toughed it out.
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