A lot of the Apollo astronauts are/were generally around my grandfather's age (Collins was six months younger). Possibly for that reason, it particularly haunts me to see them going.

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"If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh my God, what is that thing?' then scream and cut your mic."
- Cary Elwes as Collins offers a suggestion for Armstrong's first words, From the Earth to the Moon "Mare Tranquillitatis"
(a dramatization, but from the linked excerpt, I can believe it)