Michael Collins' crucial Apollo 11 role - 13 Minutes to the Moon Season 1, Ep 7 - BBC World Service
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- Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded.
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As Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic landing, Michael Collins was in lunar orbit, playing a crucial role on the mothership.
This is his story.
Presented by: Kevin Fong
Starring:
Michael Collins
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R.I.P. Michael Collins. I always enjoyed you talking about Apollo and your career. A true gentleman and American hero. 🚀
his words on armstrong are touching
Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins were perfect together. Collins of course contributed excellence, but importantly levity with Armstrong. Aldrin - "I take back whatever bad I said about MIT." Lmao. They were a perfect trio for humanity engineering, science, and of course chemistry 😂
RIP, Michael Collins. I read your reputation in the Space sector in y course English book, and until now I still teach a few lessons about first step of the man on the moon.
These great Americans are God's instrument to see his glory...I admired them from my soul.
Have read Michael's book just recently and it is a great read.
I did also. His book is a unique document giving an inside view of how the Gemini and Apollo projects were carried out. And he was the best writer among the astronauts.
I hadn’t heard of it until now so I’ll go search it out. Thx.
Since 'Carrying the fire' I truly respect this man.
His is the best memoir of the Gemini/Apollo Program. I have only one criticism. Where he mentions Von Braun in chapter five, substitute Oberth.
Amazing documentary. RIP Michael Collins. And thank you.
Fantastic series up to BBC standards. Well done!
Thanks Mike.
Great video...👍
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I was not aware of the existence of the three pillared Apollo column in Rome. Jeezers. That is quite something. Even if it were perchance a gimme, like, they hacked it down to 3 remaining pillars to symbolise the 3 man crews of the Apollo space program, or, no vandalism but they did name the space program after that particular edifice, it is nevertheless quite remarkable simply because there it nevertheless is.
One Michael Collins to the other, any familial connection? Yes, the American astronaut Michael Collins was a distant cousin of the Irish patriot Michael Collins.
the original 'major Tom' . . .
Why they had just one astronaut in the command module ?
Because they needed 2 to perform the descent phase in the Lunar Module.
@@AndrewBlacker-t1d why not having 2 in the command module? What if he gets sick or die?
@@kyriakoskitsiosthe Apollo command module only had seats for 3
Michel Collins was the astronaut at the Apollo 11 press conference who said: "I don't remember to have seen any" (stars in the sky). But he allegedly circled around the Moon in total darkness and would have had the most fantastic view of the stars in the universe - had the story been true. But that Collins forgot - and immediately had a corrective eye from Armstrong, who instantly was aware of the blunder. No astronaut from the Apollo era ever left low Earth orbit. Anyone who thinks different should search for the film "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon" by Bart Sibrel, and watch it carefully. It's about 50 minutes long, and no part should be omitted. It showns the truth which have been suppressed for more than 50 years and constantly is attacked by content makers who are paid misinformants for NASA.
Collins' "I don't remember seeing any" comment at the postflight press conference was his response to Neil Armstrong's statement about the visibility of stars "whilst photographing the solar corona" - not to Patrick Moore's question about star visibility from the lunar surface.
The solar corona photography took place from the Command Module whilst they were still on their way to the Moon (not from the lunar surface!) and lasted for a period of a few minutes whilst the corona remained visible 'peeking out' from behind the shadowed Moon. Collins either witnessed this photography or participated in it, so it was perfectly natural for him to offer his own recollection of the event. And, of course, perfectly innocent.
These statements by Armstrong and Collins are concerned with no other part of the 8 day mission. Both saw a "sky full of stars" from the Moon's shadow, and saw stars "occasionally" when on the way to the Moon (without using the spacecraft optics).
How could you have got this so wrong? Answer: By not looking into the details mentioned at the press conference so that you understood what their statements meant. Having swallowed down Sibrel's tripe whole, you were prejudiced against the historical narrative of Apollo, and so rushed into drawing your uninformed and incorrect conclusion(s).
@@eventcone No, it was a general observation about what was possible to see from the surface of the Moon. Your correction is pretentious and typical for the massive propaganda directed and paid for by NASA. Mr. Bart Sibrel simply showed what actually happened - an attempt to make the orbit in LEO look as if the Apollo 11 crew was halfway to the Moon. NASA's own video is the proof.
Bollywood produced all the footage in Benares.
That would explain all the excruciating singing and dancing.
I am the golden eagle what do you expecting from this Bird 🦅 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚
Takes the lie to his grave.
What lie?
Can you prove it with real evidence?
If not, you're the liar.
@@AndrewBlacker-t1d
TONS of evidence.
One being there is absolutely zero evidence of humans breathing low pressure (5 psi and under) pure oxygen for days at a time, let alone weeks.
Even the Space Station, Space Shuttle missions, and the new Artemis design provide normal sea level pressure along with normal nitrogen/oxygen life support atmosphere.
oh how novel, a conspiracy theorist and illiterate