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This image is among my favorites from the Apollo program. Within it is all of mankind – every single human being alive at the time, except one single individual: Michael Collins, the astronaut who manned the Columbia<\/em> crew module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on the Moon’s surface.

From his perch there, Collins took this photograph of the approaching Eagle<\/em>, the ascent section of the Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) with by Armstrong and Aldrin in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NASA Image ID: AS11-44-6642; Date: July 21, 1969<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shortly after the picture was taken, Eagle <\/em>docked with Columbia<\/em>. Armstrong and Aldrin (and the samples they had collected on the Moon) transferred over to the crew module, where they reunited with Collins for the return trip to Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a more processed version of the image:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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