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by darrenf 3110 days ago
And then there's Michael Collins's take:

> "My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the Moon and returning to Earth alone; now I am within minutes of finding out the truth of the matter," he wrote. "If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/jul/19/michael-coll...

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Michael Collins' "Carrying the Fire" is by far the best of the astronaut memoirs (IMHO). Really well written!