Like a lot of people that go into the military, when I was a kid, I was inspired by heroes like Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin
Congrats on 50 years since Apollo 11, and thanks for making us all look up! 🚀🌕
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Why are we learning to use sextants? No one’s used one of these to do anything cool in at least 200 years! / Not true! / Hello, I’m Apollo 11 astronaut Mike Collins! In 1969, I used a sextant to plot our course around the moon. Without it, we would have smashed straight into her surface and never been able to land! / So go easy on the sextant, friends! / It took humanity to the moon, and who knows where else it might take us in the future! / …Have you been hiding out in that small boat this whole voyage just to pop up and make that point? / I’m used to long trips in tight spaces