Astronaut Michael Collins, the man who manned the command module during the moonwalk, reflected on the historic Apollo 11 mission as it celebrates its 50th anniversary on Saturday, July 20.
"The thing that amazes me about Apollo 11 is everything worked as advertised," Collins told ABC News' Senior Transportation Correspondent David Kerley."My God that moon is immense and it's so three-dimensional," Collins said."You have the sunlight illuminating the ring of the surface of the moon...but somehow beyond its size and its gloss it projects a feeling of fragility. It hit me that this is a fragile little tiny thing.
"I liked being in the command module by myself," Collins said."I had my own way of doing things, I had hot coffee. I took the center seat out and it was almost like being in a little church."
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