“The Eagle has landed!”
Thanks to Tommy Cannon for enlightening my morning with this video. You do have to watch this. It’s a conspiracy theorist getting in Aldrin’s face. (And commented on by the Mythbusters.)

The angry heckler/documentarian really should have done his research [rimshot]. Aldrin is the celebrity hot shot of the three. Maybe he knew he would get clocked. Neil Armstrong gives lectures on physics/astronomy/mathematics and rarely mentions his part in Apollo 11.

Mike Collins had an interesting interview posted at NASA.gov instead of doing interviews. Here’s an excerpt:

Q. I understand you have become a recluse.

A. I’m not sure that’s the word. I think of the Brown Recluse, the deadliest of spiders, and I have a suntan, so perhaps. Anyway, it’s true I’ve never enjoyed the spotlight, don’t know why, maybe it ties in with the celebrity thing.

From that joke I picture my father-in-law and Mike Collins cracking each other up at a glider field.

Here’s another interesting quote from Collins about playing your part and what it’s like on the dark side of the moon:

This venture has been structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two. I don’t mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon, I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side.

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