NASA spent more than fifty years never releasing what Michael Collins really said about Apollo 11 — and only at the very end of his life did that finally change. You know the other two. The men who walked on the Moon. Collins is the one history filed away as the third man, the pilot who just circled overhead while the world watched the surface. But he was not up there in peace. He was alone in a spacecraft called Columbia, on the far side of the Moon, no radio, no Earth, carrying something he had been handed in writing before launch. And he almost took it to his grave.
Apollo 11 Before His Death
