"Exploration is not a choice, really; it’s an imperative."
Mr. Collins was the Apollo 11 astronaut who, unlike Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, did not get to land on the moon. While his more famous colleagues descended to the moon in the Lunar Excursion Module and made history, Michael Collins orbited in the Command Module - known as Columbia, often referred to as the loneliest human in history.
He died today, from cancer, at the age of 90, and the world is that much dimmer with his loss.
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