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Then there is Michael Collins, the man most likely to be forgotten as the pilot of the Apollo 11 mother ship that circled the moon while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first human beings to take an extraterrestrial walk. Now a brigadier general (U.S. Air Force, ret.), Collins is director of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, which will soon house flying relics from the earliest balloons through Skylab...
Nearly five years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Sea of Tranquility, many questions about the moon remain unanswered. Indeed, some scientists feel that they may never completely learn the origin and history of the earth's immediate neighbor. Yet as a result of painstaking analysis of the 838 Ibs. of lunar rocks and the wealth of data collected by six Apollo crews, a fundamental understanding of the moon as well as of the early years of the earth is now finally beginning to emerge...
...State Dept. of Planning, "possibly the worst single source of air pollution in the world." It will certainly be a greater source of pollution than the infamous Four Corners power plant in New Mexico, whose emissions were the only sign of human activity that astronauts Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin were able to see from their Gemini XII space capsule...
...world as an American but as a human being." Other astronauts found the isolation of space exhilarating even when they were behind the moon, out of touch with the earth. Michael Collins was actually delighted to be left behind in the Apollo 11 command ship after Armstrong and Aldrin departed for their moon walk: "I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling had ever been before...
Compulsion. Some astronauts were less affected by their trips in space than by the acclaim afterward. When he returned from the first lunar landing, Buzz Aldrin, Armstrong's moon-walking companion, found himself totally unequipped to play the hero's role during the countless public appearances required of him. Soon he was on his way to what he now calls "a good old-fashioned American nervous breakdown." In contrast, other astronauts seem to have taken full advantage of the acclaim: John Glenn made a run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, Wally Schirra appeared as a commentator...