July 21 , 1969 Michael Collins
1:09 a.m. Armstrong joins Aldrin in the landing craft.
9:44 a.m. Shortly after arousing Collins, still circling the Moon in the Command/Service Module, Mission Control observes:
"Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins is
experiencing during this 47 minutes of each lunar revolution when he's behind the Moon with no one to talk to except his tape recorder aboard Columbia."
Bear Grylls' awesome kid-names: http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/01/15/bear-grylls-welcomes-son-huckleberry-edward-jocelyne/
Michael Collins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)
Very cool article about Collins and the speech Nixon had ready in case Armstrong and Aldrin didn't leave the moon: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/19/michael-collins-astronaut-apollo11
Veritasium's moon video: http://youtu.be/Bz9D6xba9Og
List of man-made objects on the moon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_man-made_objects_on_the_Moon
to scale distance between earth and moon: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Earth-Moon.png
Moon reflectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_laser_ranging_experiment
Blind Willie Johnson "Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g
Golden Record: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html
Earth from 4 billion miles away: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pale_Blue_Dot.png
