Cli_ord R. McMurray
NASA
Mike Collins during a simulation inside the Command Module Columbia.
NASA
Minutes after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, CAPCOM Charlie Duke told Neil Armstrong, “Be advised there’s lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world.”
“Well there are two of them up here,” Armstrong replied. Michael Collins, orbiting overhead, was smiling too as he keyed his microphone to say, “And don’t forget one in the Command Module.”