Michael Collins is the only human, dead or alive, not contained in the frame of this picture...

[Playinghardball]

Michael Collins was a NASA astronaut onboard Gemini 10 and the famed Apollo 11.

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.

[Orrex]

1. Dammit!

I had my eyes closed.

[A HERETIC I AM]

11. Yeah, but he got your good side. n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

2. That was an amazing time to be alive in America

I was way to young to appreciate it.

Seemed like it would always be so.

[spanone]

8. it was incredible. they would roll in these little old black & white teevees to watch...

at our grade school. we saw the mercury astronauts blast off into space. it was the sixties and it was some cool science.

[drmeow]

3. He's my cousin!

Nice guy.

[efhmc]

9. Great.

[MannyGoldstein]

16. I'm extremely envious

Of all the astronauts, I think he wrote the best stuff. He strikes me as simultaneously having the soul of a writer (watching, curious) with a big huge helping of "can do!". Most writers just watch.

[drmeow]

18. Ironically

I've never read any of his stuff. I have Carrying the Fire on my to read list. Technically he's my mom's cousin so he's my first cousin once removed. I met him when he was the head of the Air and Space Museum and then again at a family reunion picnic about 15 or 20 years ago. He lives in Florida with his wife and is very reclusive now - he is also not in very good health from what I understand.

In retrospect, I was really blase about him when we met him. I was so used to his history just being family history that I didn't really think about the significance. I wish I'd been more thoughtful.

[Lex]

4. That we know of so far.

[BootinUp]

5. You might be forgetting Gary Seven...

[DavidDvorkin]

6. Collins and all the people on the far side of the Earth

Depending on how on defines "in the frame".

[TeeYiYi]

13. That, and...

...stone age bone dust...on the far side of the earth. I'm confused by the OP.

TYY

[Coyotl]

7. That photo looks faked.

Just kidding

Seriously, it makes him the only person alive at the time, not ever to have lived. Lots of people have lived since the photo who were not alive then yet.

[wickerwoman]

10. What about all the people abducted by aliens?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. Poor guy had to circle the block while the lucky guys got to LAND on the Moon.

And Buzz had to defer to Neil as to who would be the first man to walk on the moon, due to some administrative decision at NASA.....sigh.....

I was in junior high. Those were great days for science. Neil deGrasse Tyson keeps hollering about how tiny the NASA budget is, but the politicians won't listen to him. They usually don't understand science, at least the Republicans don't.

[drmeow]

21. My impression is that

he actually preferred it that way - he did not like the fame and limelight that came with the whole thing. His role was also arguably more important - to get everyone back!

[KG]

14. riiiight. as if men actually landed on the moon....

[TransitJohn]

15. Well, him and the billions on the sides of the Earth not visible in the photograph. eom

n/t

[Logical]

19. Jesus, really? That is your comment? nt

[TransitJohn]

22. Funny, I didn't say the same about your nonsensical OP. eom

n/t

[Logical]

23. I'll write your response for you.....

"That is not your opinion, you just copied it from Wiki"

[kentuck]

17. Cool!

Nice perspective!

[Vashta Nerada]

20. I don't know about that.

I wasn't born for another 20 years or so after that picture was taken. My parents were pre - pubescent.