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And then there's Michael Collins's take: > "My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am w
by darrenf 9y ago
And then there's Michael Collins's take:
> "My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote. "If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jul/19/michael-collins-astronaut-apollo11 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jul/19/michael-coll...
- pinewurst 9y agoMichael Collins' "Carrying the Fire" is by far the best of the astronaut memoirs (IMHO). Really well written!