2009-07-19
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“ Heroes abound, but don’t count astronauts among them. We worked very hard, we did our jobs to near perfection, but that is what we had been hired to do. ”
Michael Collins, in an article about how he “became the forgotten astronaut of Apollo 11” in The Observer. Collins was in the command module of the orbiter as Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the moon, and the article is worth a read.
