RIP Michael Collins

[Weatherman2020]

He had a fantastic personality, loved every interview he gave. Michael orbited the moon while Neil and Buzz became the first humans to walk on the moon.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

 

[Weatherman2020]

On being the loneliest man since Adam as he orbited the moon alone:

"I was not lonely. I had a happy little home in the command module. Behind the moon it was very peaceful — no one in Mission Control is yakkin' at me and wanting me to do this, that, and the other. So I was very happy, it was a happy home."

 

[Esdraelon]

He had a fantastic personality, loved every interview he gave. Michael orbited the moon while Neil and Buzz became the first humans to walk on the moon.
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Life was a LOT simpler in the 60s and even the 70s. RIP Michael, your place in history is assured.

 

[Weatherman2020]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Astronauts pay was pretty bad then.

 

[rightwinger]

Sad to see the Apollo Astronauts dying off

They were all heroes

 

[WinterBorn]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

 

[Weatherman2020]

I took this a few days ago. I can’t imagine sitting at the top and lighting 5 of mankind’s most powerful machines and tons of fuel underneath you.

 

[boedicca]

RIP

 

[Weatherman2020]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

Plus hazard pay.
$27,401
$190,684 in 2019 dollars.

 

[White 6]

I took this a few days ago. I can’t imagine sitting at the top and lighting 5 of mankind’s most powerful machines and tons of fuel underneath you.
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Where is that? I saw one laying down at the Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, AL many years ago.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

Today, he'd be doing the University circuit, book deals, chat shows, and so on.
It's unfair that someone like Kaepernick probably made more last year than these 3 men made in a lifetime.

 

[WinterBorn]

I took this a few days ago. I can’t imagine sitting at the top and lighting 5 of mankind’s most powerful machines and tons of fuel underneath you.
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Looks like you were in Huntsville?

Yeah, the bravery exhibited by those astronauts back then was amazing. I remember reading a quote from one of them (Armstrong maybe?), saying the only thing that worried him was being in a machine that had a million moving parts that was build by the lowest bidder.

Heros one and all.

 

[Meathead]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

He was a better man than you, Gungadin.

 

[WinterBorn]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

Today, he'd be doing the University circuit, book deals, chat shows, and so on.
It's unfair that someone like Kaepernick probably made more last year than these 3 men made in a lifetime.

There are all sorts of careers that don't pay as well as some ridiculous entertainment careers. Athletes and actors make more than astronauts, teachers, firemen, nurses, ect ect. It is the nature of the market.

 

[WinterBorn]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

He was a better man than you, Gungadin.

Better man than who? I mean, I agree. Because he was one of the very few to do what he did.

But it sounds like reproach, and I am curious who it is aimed at.

 

[Meathead]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

He was a better man than you, Gungadin.

Better man than who? I mean, I agree. Because he was one of the very few to do what he did.

But it sounds like reproach, and I am curious who it is aimed at.

Gungadin of course.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

He had a fantastic personality, loved every interview he gave. Michael orbited the moon while Neil and Buzz became the first humans to walk on the moon.
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They went to the Moon in a tin can supplied with far less computing ability than your cellphone.

 

[Foreigner Looking In.]

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

He was a better man than you, Gungadin.

Better man than who? I mean, I agree. Because he was one of the very few to do what he did.

But it sounds like reproach, and I am curious who it is aimed at.

Gungadin of course.

That's a pretty modest kitchen considering his life achievements.

Unless I am mistaken, he was paid the standard military pay for his rank and time in service. In other words, not much.

He was a better man than you, Gungadin.

Better man than who? I mean, I agree. Because he was one of the very few to do what he did.

But it sounds like reproach, and I am curious who it is aimed at.

Gungadin of course.

Moi?

 

[MarcATL]

His wife was a cutie in her day.

May he rest in peace.