Michael Collins (astronaut)

“Apollo 11's Michael Collins visits MIT/AeroAstro (1 April 2015)”

“Statement From Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins, NASA Public Release no. 09-164 — Collins' statement on the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission (9 July 2009)”

“NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History — interview with Michelle Kelly (8 October 1997)”

“I am certain, if everyone could see the Earth floating just outside their windows, every day would be #EarthDay There are few things more fragile or more beautiful than Earth, let’s work together today and everyday to protect our home.”

“Each spring and summer, as the lake gets drier and as more high-pressure aircraft tires abuse it, surface cracks and blemishes appear, so by late autumn the lake bed appears rough and "ruined". Then come the winter rains, sparingly, but providing enough water to allow a couple of inches to accumulate on the lake bed and to be blown back and forth by the omnipresent wind. By early spring, the newly dried surface reappears, as silky as a baby's bottom, ready to take another year's traffic smoothly and safely.”