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I love the photo he took, where in the frame there was literally every human who was alive and has ever lived, except Michael Collins himself: https://nssdc.gs

by pornel 6y ago

I love the photo he took, where in the frame there was literally every human who was alive and has ever lived, except Michael Collins himself: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/a11_h_44_6642.html https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/a11_h_44...

sp3000 6y ago
“How isolated, how lonely those two space supermen appeared! But they had each other for companionship; and through television, they were held in the thoughts of viewing millions of men and women. To be really isolated, to fully experience loneliness, you must be alone. From Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s spectacular movements, my mind shifted to Collins’s lunar orbiting. Relatively inactive and unwatched, he had time for contemplation, time to study both the nearby surface of the moon and the distant moonlike world. Here was human awareness floating through universal reaches, attached to our earth by such tenuous bonds as radio waves and star sights. A minor functional error would leave it floating forever in the space from which, ancestrally, it came.” Charles Lindbergh's forward in Carrying the Fire.
- ahi 6y ago
  Lindbergh died in 1974. The man who first soloed across the Atlantic wrote the forward for the man who first soloed around the moon. Huh.
  - mandevil 6y ago
    A child born on December 17th, 1903- the day the Wright's flew a plane just under a quarter mile at Kittyhawk- would have turned 65 the day before Apollo 8 took off to take the first humans to Lunar orbit.
hcrisp 6y ago
He spoke about this in the documentary film, In the Shadow of the Moon [0], "Certainly I didn't feel it as fear, I felt it as awareness, almost a feeling of exultation. I liked it! It was a good feeling." He mentioned the same thing in his book, Carrying the Fire (I saw that NPR is calling it "the best of the astronaut autobiographies", and having read it, I concur.) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMx2MA5bEtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMx2MA5bEtk

by pornel 6y ago

sp3000 6y ago

“How isolated, how lonely those two space supermen appeared! But they had each other for companionship; and through television, they were held in the thoughts of viewing millions of men and women. To be really isolated, to fully experience loneliness, you must be alone. From Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s spectacular movements, my mind shifted to Collins’s lunar orbiting. Relatively inactive and unwatched, he had time for contemplation, time to study both the nearby surface of the moon and the distant moonlike world. Here was human awareness floating through universal reaches, attached to our earth by such tenuous bonds as radio waves and star sights. A minor functional error would leave it floating forever in the space from which, ancestrally, it came.” Charles Lindbergh's forward in Carrying the Fire.

ahi 6y ago
Lindbergh died in 1974. The man who first soloed across the Atlantic wrote the forward for the man who first soloed around the moon. Huh.
- mandevil 6y ago
  A child born on December 17th, 1903- the day the Wright's flew a plane just under a quarter mile at Kittyhawk- would have turned 65 the day before Apollo 8 took off to take the first humans to Lunar orbit.

hcrisp 6y ago

He spoke about this in the documentary film, In the Shadow of the Moon [0], "Certainly I didn't feel it as fear, I felt it as awareness, almost a feeling of exultation. I liked it! It was a good feeling." He mentioned the same thing in his book, Carrying the Fire (I saw that NPR is calling it "the best of the astronaut autobiographies", and having read it, I concur.) [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMx2MA5bEtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMx2MA5bEtk