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Originally Posted by mako88sb
It seems a lot of people are unaware of the interview Neil did in Australia a few months before he passed on. It's great to see him so relaxed and obviously enjoying himself:
http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.com.au/ |
I have seen that, and it was fun to watch. What I found interesting about Neil, was that after he left NASA and became a college instructor, he never gave any interviews, he stayed out of the lime light as best he could. He was that private of a person. Didn't even want to give autographs either. Can you imagine how many times people asked him "What was it like to be the first man to walk on the moon?" Had to get real old for him. It wasn't until later in life, that he began to open up about it. He always felt it wasn't that big of a deal to him, it was his job.
Bur he and the rest of his crew could not have accomplished all that, without all the help from those involved in the Apollo program.
All of us talk about Neil and Buzz when it comes to Apollo 11, not much is ever said about the third member of the crew, Micheal Collins. Neil and Buzz couldn't have gotten home without him. Sometime, you should look up info on Micheal, he was involved in a few flights other then Apollo 11. He flew during Project Gemini too, even did a lengthy spacewalk.
After he left NASA, he would become Directer of the National Air and Space Museum in DC. Haven't seen anything of him until I saw pictures of him and Buzz at Neil's funeral.