28 April 2021

Michael Collins: Pilot of the Apollo 11 Command Module

Michael Collins: Oct. 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021. He took the photo below at 21:34:00 UT or 5:34 PM EDT, 1969

Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in the frame of this picture, 1969

Collins took this picture of the Lunar Module, containing Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong with Earth in the background, during the Apollo 11 mission. This makes him the only person ever to have lived who was not inside the frame of the photo. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. That means that every human that lived up to the point of this photo being taken still exists, at least in some form, and every human that has been born since then was also is in this photo, at least in some form. So even if you were born after this picture was taken, the materials you’re made from are still on the frame of this picture.

For the Large Scale version of the photo, click this link. And for all of the Apollo 11 photos, see this link at NASA.

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