Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies at 90, family says

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6. At one point, he was the most remote human being in history.

His orbits would put him on the opposite side of the moon from the lunar module with Armstrong and Aldrin. This also put him on the opposite side of the moon from the earth. The two closest human beings to him were literally on the other side of the moon, and everyone else was on an entirely different celestial body.

He took a picture of the lunar module, with the earth behind it, after the lunar and command modules separated. That one photograph included every animal and plant on or from earth with one exception - himself.