{"id":1017,"date":"2021-04-28T23:48:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:35:50","slug":"astronaut-michael-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut Michael Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)\">Collins<\/a> was the &#8220;forgotten astronaut&#8221; who who flew the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\" title=\"Apollo 11\">Apollo 11<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Command_Module_Columbia\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Command Module Columbia\">command module <em>Columbia<\/em><\/a> around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_Armstrong\" title=\"Neil Armstrong\">Neil Armstrong<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buzz_Aldrin\" title=\"Buzz Aldrin\">Buzz Aldrin<\/a>, made the first crewed landing on the surface.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure when he gave this short interview. Obviously years after the Apollo 11 mission.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9O572R2MwFM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collins was the &#8220;forgotten astronaut&#8221; who who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. I&#8217;m not sure when he gave this short interview. Obviously years after the Apollo 11 mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5604,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/5604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}