For Michael Collins

I'm left behind when I should have been there
Walking with you

Michael Collins, one of the three Apollo 11 astronauts, has passed at the age of 90.  Collins remained alone in the Apollo Command Module for 21 hours while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended and returned from the lunar surface in the Lunar Exploration Module (L.E.M.).  Of that time the mission log reads, "Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins".   Buzz Aldrin is now the lone mission survivor.

(Armstrong, Collins, Aldrin)

 

The lyrics are from For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me by Jethro Tull.