RIP Michael Collins

I’m glad that when the show For All Mankind covered the Apollo XI landing, they kept the names of the real astronauts, including the late Michael Collins who would then be in the alternate universe’s Apollo XV (sic) disaster…spoiler alert, he survived. Rather sucks. Even in fiction the poor guy never got to walk on the Moon.

Others called him the forgotten astronaut since Armstrong and Aldrin got all the fame and glory. It just demonstrates their ignorance since Collins had the toughest job after the landing, making sure the landing module sync’d up and safely reconnected with the orbiter. Before that, not going crazy orbiting the Moon a few times by himself while the other two tried not to be the first people (known) to die on another “planet.”

Thanks for everything Mr. Collins. Your bravery, nerves of steel and small stature (astronauts had to be short back then to fit the cockpits and save fuel on their mass) helped push the human race forward.

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