“I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side.”
Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey
Not only was Collins left alone in the Command Module for 27 hours while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the Moon, he was cut off from contact with Mission Control and his fellow astronauts for 47 minutes every time that his orbit took him to the dark side of the Moon, alone, alone, alone.
Landing on the Moon almost seems easy by comparison.
- Sid
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