RIP - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, dies aged 90

originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
Great man, and a true national hero.

May he rest in peace.

ETA - It's interesting that Collins had no desire to return to the Moon after Apollo 11. He was offered to get in the pipeline for the command of Apollo 14, which would have let him walk on the Moon, but he declined. There's probably a message there, but I'm not sure what it is. Could just be an indicator of how truly perilous those missions really were. Going there and getting back alive one time was feat enough...why roll the dice and dance with the devil a second time?

Maybe this,


If you think about it, it's a totally correct observation as a human being, at the very least, of the time.

A famous quote? Well, it was always there?

a reply to: Encia22

May he Rest In Peace.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

You need to be a special kind of driven for that. Only Lovell, Young and Cernan made the return trip to convert their orbit into footprints. Most of them decided that the commitment they needed to make in terms of training and time away from home was too much. Add to that the removal of a huge chunk of planned missions by Nixon's cuts and tbe opportunity to return was much reduced.