Michael Collins' crucial Apollo 11 role - 13 Minutes to the Moon Season 1, Ep 7

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
Theme music by Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music
Watch an animation on Michael Collins explaining why Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon: • Why was Neil Armstrong...
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@williamhastie5056 3 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Michael Collins. I always enjoyed you talking about Apollo and your career. A true gentleman and American hero. 🚀

@shivamduhan7700 19 күн бұрын

his words on armstrong are touching

@samnang9food51 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@uaerhan 5 ай бұрын

Amazing documentary. RIP Michael Collins. And thank you.

@marcnicol6978 10 ай бұрын

Have read Michael's book just recently and it is a great read.

@GH-oi2jf 10 ай бұрын

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.

@kitcanyon658 4 ай бұрын

I hadn’t heard of it until now so I’ll go search it out. Thx.

@robertmayfield8746 4 ай бұрын

Since 'Carrying the fire' I truly respect this man.

@GH-oi2jf Ай бұрын

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.

@juliuspimentel3392 2 жыл бұрын

These great Americans are God's instrument to see his glory...I admired them from my soul.

@chrisgeorgiou735 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic series up to BBC standards. Well done!

@BenRush Ай бұрын

Thanks Mike.

@imagereader_9 2 ай бұрын

Not long before his passing, Collins had an interview which included a bit of a confession. It turns out that the suit the astronauts wore gave him a case of claustrophobia. It was so bad that he had to keep it a secret lest he be grounded.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman 5 ай бұрын

Great video...👍

@BBCWorldService 2 жыл бұрын

Watch the series here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLz_B0PFGIn4f0xYPhOk0wIASOYE8-1Wbz

@Eigil_Skovgaard 25 күн бұрын

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.

@jonglewongle3438 11 ай бұрын

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.

@captaindoeverything 3 ай бұрын

the original 'major Tom' . . .

@stephenwright8824 5 ай бұрын

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.

@kyriakoskitsios Ай бұрын

Why they had just one astronaut in the command module ?

@user-dh6bj2me5p Ай бұрын

Because they needed 2 to perform the descent phase in the Lunar Module.

@kyriakoskitsios Ай бұрын

@@user-dh6bj2me5p why not having 2 in the command module? What if he gets sick or die?

@rdubb77 Күн бұрын

@@kyriakoskitsiosthe Apollo command module only had seats for 3

@albin2232 3 ай бұрын

Bollywood produced all the footage in Benares.

@AttilatheNun-xv6kc Ай бұрын

That would explain all the excruciating singing and dancing.

@azteceaglecochodeguerrerow5373 3 жыл бұрын

I am the golden eagle what do you expecting from this Bird 🦅 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚

@yomommaahotoo264 Ай бұрын

Takes the lie to his grave.

@user-dh6bj2me5p Ай бұрын

What lie? Can you prove it with real evidence? If not, you're the liar.

@yomommaahotoo264 Ай бұрын

@@user-dh6bj2me5p 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.

@ardeladimwit Ай бұрын

oh how novel, a conspiracy theorist and illiterate