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NFT: RIP - Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins

US1 Giants : 4/28/2021 3:05 pm
Age 90 with cancer.
I went to college with his daughter  
Gmanfandan : 4/28/2021 4:06 pm : link
Nice girl. Don't know what happened to her - always wondered how she felt being the daughter of the guy who never got to walk on the moon.
RE: I went to college with his daughter  
US1 Giants : 4/28/2021 4:15 pm : link
In comment 15237950 Gmanfandan said:
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Nice girl. Don't know what happened to her - always wondered how she felt being the daughter of the guy who never got to walk on the moon.


Was the girl you knew named Kate? Kate is listed on Wiki as a daughter who is an actress [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Collins_(actress)[/url]
RE: RE: I went to college with his daughter  
Gmanfandan : 4/28/2021 5:28 pm : link
In comment 15237970 US1 Giants said:
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In comment 15237950 Gmanfandan said:


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Nice girl. Don't know what happened to her - always wondered how she felt being the daughter of the guy who never got to walk on the moon.



Was the girl you knew named Kate? Kate is listed on Wiki as a daughter who is an actress [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Collins_(actress)[/url]

Yep- That's her Katie Collins - we were in acting together at Northwestern - never knew if she stuck with it.
RE: I went to college with his daughter  
regulator : 4/28/2021 6:51 pm : link
In comment 15237950 Gmanfandan said:
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Nice girl. Don't know what happened to her - always wondered how she felt being the daughter of the guy who never got to walk on the moon.


Not to mention the loneliest man in the world for a while...
BBC podcast  
Racer : 4/28/2021 7:43 pm : link
‘13 minutes to the Moon’ dedicated an episode to him.

Ep.07 Michael Collins: Third man - ( New Window )
RE: I went to college with his daughter  
Jim in Fairfax : 4/28/2021 7:48 pm : link
In comment 15237950 Gmanfandan said:
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Nice girl. Don't know what happened to her - always wondered how she felt being the daughter of the guy who never got to walk on the moon.

Well, that describes every daughter except the handful fathered by 12 men.
Not sure I'd call him the "loneliest man in the world" exactly,  
CT Charlie : 4/28/2021 9:27 pm : link
but he was one of my heroes. In my opinion "Carrying the Fire" is the best book ever written about space flight. Among many other things, he was a brilliant writer.
RIP Michael,  
section125 : 4/28/2021 9:38 pm : link
you did us proud.
For Michael Collins....  
Bill E : 4/28/2021 11:43 pm : link
...Jeffrey, and me.
Great song from Jethro Tull; which was in part, a song about Collins being the one left in orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin walked the moon.
This was pre-aqualung.....
RIP Michael - ( New Window )
Those Apollo astronauts were true heros ....  
short lease : 4/29/2021 1:29 pm : link

Not sure (even if I had the brains and physical traits) that I would get in 1 of those rockets.

I keep hearing that the computing power we have in our cell phones DWARFS what they used to send those folks into outer space and to the moon. That is amazing to me ....


RIP Mr. Collins


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