{"id":122055,"date":"2021-04-28T15:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-who-orbited-moon-dies-at-90"},"modified":"2021-04-28T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T22:22:38","slug":"michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-who-orbited-moon-dies-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-who-orbited-moon-dies-at-90","title":{"rendered":"Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut who orbited moon, dies at 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-who-orbited-moon-dies-at-902.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the command module pilot on NASA\u2019s Apollo 11 mission, Collins circled the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969. When his two crewmates returned from the surface, Collins was in the unique position to capture a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectspace.com\/news\/..\/images\/news-042821k-lg.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\">photo of all of humanity<\/a> \u2014 his fellow astronauts on board the lunar module and everyone else on Earth off in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Control likened Collins\u2019 experience to that of the first human in existence. \u201cNot since Adam has any human known such solitude,\u201d a mission commentator said. Collins later rejected that notion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s baloney,\u201d Collins said on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission in 2019. \u201cYou put some Samoan on his little canoe out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at night and he doesn\u2019t really know where he\u2019s going, he doesn\u2019t know how to get there. He can see the stars, they\u2019re his only friend out there, and he\u2019s not talking to anybody. That guy is lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the command module pilot on NASA\u2019s Apollo 11 mission, Collins circled the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down at Tranquility Base on July 20, 1969. When his two crewmates returned from the surface, Collins was in the unique position to capture a photo of all of humanity \u2014 his fellow astronauts [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}