[mako88sb]

Originally Posted by eddie

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.

I have accumulated quite a number of books about the Apollo years lately and Mikes "Carrying the Fire" is one of my favorites closely followed by Al Wordens "Falling to Earth". No offense to Gene Cernan but it's too bad Mike turned down the opportunity to command AP-17. Have to respect the guy for deciding his family had sacrificed enough for his career. If you haven't read Al's book, I highly recommend it. I think he's the only astronaut that didn't grow up dreaming to become a pilot someday but look how far he got. He gives a brief but very interesting account of flying the NF-104. He also mentions that everybody more or less agreed that Yeager screwed up(your probably aware his flight was shown near the end of The Right Stuff) but nobody dared bring it up around him.