• Michael Collins' Inscription inside Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia"
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    Following splashdown,while en route to Hawaii on the USS Hornet, Michael Collins crawled back into the command module (it was connected to the mobile quarantine facility by an air-tight tunnel) and wrote this short note on one of the equipment bay panels.  The inscription reads:

    Spacecraft 107, alias Apollo 11, alias "Columbia."
    The Best Ship to Come Down the Line.
    God Bless Her.
    Michael Collins, CMP

    Excerpt from After Sputnik: 50 Years of the Space Age

  • Michael Collins' Inscription inside Apollo 11 Command Module "Columbia"

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