Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut - BBC HARDtalk 

Same to me, Migg. Thank you !

Sounds like wonderful man! RIP

I of course thougth of Michael Collins as a forgotten hero. And this interview was great. But they made a son about him. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eG5zRt-sNWE.html

He referenced Hitler, he's a deplorable human being

MC the great, he was part of the mission, doesn't matter in what level. RIP, we love you.

The interviewer just tried to project his smaller mind and concerns on to a greater minded man.

What bothers you? What’s wrong with the interviewer

@@severusfloki5778 IMHO the man is respectful but somehow out of his depth. Make no mistake, he did a good job but someone like Mike Wallace would have bee better.

Sakur is a commie pest

He was a bald faced liar.

@MichaelKingsfordGray are you okay?

@@johndavid360 no, he's MichealKinsgfordNotOkay.

@@chrismofer a diferent bread 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤭😂

I like to think he and his fellow intrepid explorers represented all of us on planet Earth.

Seems like a lovely bloke.

Yes. That Earth man sure knew how to fly one of them space ships. Godspeed Mr. Collins. Bless

He absolutely did represent you. Doesn't matter what nationality he or you are. You're both human. America did not go to the moon on that day, humanity did.

@@BradleyG01 True

NASA determined the chances for total mission failure and death on each moon mission at 95%. (That compares to the risk profile of the Space Shuttle. That was initially 1/1000 of 1% for Space Shuttle. ) NASA was fine with taking a 95% chance of death, on each moon mission. The chances they would succeed on all 6 missions was 1 in 60,000,000. When the risk of a major malfunction increased on the Shuttle from 1 in 1000 of 1% to 1%, the program was cancelled.

@@maxsmith695 And what was the chance of the hoax being discovered?

@@topneorej Hard to say. IC and Pentagon controlled all 3 TV stations in 1969 and most of the large newspapers editors were Ic and military cooperators, that old go along. Time, Life, Newsweek, were all CIA cooperators. Radio stations would toe the line. There was no RU-vid or VHS or Beta videos. Modern technology exposes the hoax, plus the FSP used by Kubrick in 2001, is used excessively in the moon landing videos, to such an extent, it is obviously fake. Russia and the Saudis blackmailed Nixon and made billions from their blackmail.

@@maxsmith695 In fact, just one look at the module fixed together with duct tape and tin foil should convince any sane person this never travelled 800.000 km through 'space'.

@@topneorej Exactly. I decided to try and find what level of risk, the risk management team at NASA had assigned to the Apollo mission, because I had no idea. Quite honestly, I was not sure I would find anything, and I sure as heck did not think it would be on the NASA dot gov website. i just typed into google, something like - " risk level NASA would accept on Apollo mission before terminating the launch'. Again, I assumed it would have all been removed from the internet by now. In less than 5 minutes, I find a PDF of exactly what I am looking for. WOW. In 1967, a team of NASA experts, specialists in assessing the risk of rocket launch FAILURES, concluded the Apollo missions to the moon, had a 95% chance of total failure and death of the crew, per each launch. What? This pretty much freaked out NASA, because the public cannot know this. Well, they tell the public they did 6 moon landings and obviously no deaths. Imagine you are told jumping off a 500 foot bridge into the ocean offers a 95% chance of death. You and 5 others go forward and jump. All survive. The chances of that being reality are 1 in 60 million. The risk of a total failure for the Space Shuttle (from NASA own website ) was 1 in 100,000. That was a risk NASA was ok with. 2 fatal accidents and 14 dead astronauts later, the risk of a fatal launch is now increased to 1%. per launch. That is too HIGH for NASA and the Space Shuttle is terminated. That is not material from some newspaper article, or NASA bashing site, or unknown internet source - it is from NASA. So what is that level of risk NASA determines is the red line in the sand. Launch mission are a no go, for any mission if the chance for failure is 1 in 400 or greater. In % terms, that means the chance for success must be 99.75%. Apollo was "given a waiver", since they only had a 5% chance of success. These facts came from 15 minutes of research on google. SMH.

He's a fucking paid liar

@@DeathWish1974 You're a fucking douchebag.

Emily Foncardaz ... You've been lied to and really don't know what is really going on. It's not your fault!

@@DeathWish1974 fuck off flat earthers

@@DeathWish1974 - 100% and they talk around the issues. Not one detail about the mission.

Brits

100 % agree, horrible annoying interviewer , very annoying. Kudos to Mike Collins for his patience and professionalism

Yes, the interviewer was a goof. Hard to watch, and I love watching Michael Collins.

100% agree, Collins is a scumbag liar who should be cutoff. How any sane human can believe this fake is beyond me!

@@richardbrough4900 You probably have a very miserable life for wasting your time on bashing other people"s achievements. YOU are the scumbag, a sac of shit.

LOL.

Test pilot and fighter pilot are high skilled jobs. Faking a moon landing proved to be harder. #2 and #3 took cover under the 45 proof stuff. #1 isolated himself from the world.

What achievements?

@@maxsmith695 mass deception

@@coolnamebro idiot, 🤣🤣

he's on Twitter!

Yes he is on Twitter and on Facebook and is a lot of fun !!!

Why did he run away from Bart Sibrel?

​@@maxsmith695 Because that guy is a moron and has a wonderful record of harassing people who have accomplished more than he ever will. Sorry bud.

@@o_manam He is a film producer. He was asking Mike a question. That is all I saw.

The guy doing the interview was totally inept!

Achieved what?

@@maxsmith695 I'm sorry, have you just woken up from stasis?

@@UseQPixinDune Mike is zipping around the moon at 4300 mph and Neal and Buzz need to get in the Lunar Rover, accelerate to 4300 mph and find Mike and then have Mike open the hatch so they can safety go home. Funny nobody was ever allowed to ask a question on the lunar rover. LMAO.

@@maxsmith695 Lunar Rover? Max, rovers can't fly. They didn't even have a lunar rover in Apollo 11

@@UseQPixinDune - Whatever that little cardboard box was called they blasted off on? Descent model I guess. They needed to get it up to 4300 MPH and then connect to the command module. Neal did not allow any questions on that.

Bart Sibrel offered him $5,000 to swear on the bible, he went to the moon. He ran away from Bart. LMAO. Why? What was he afraid of?

No, that was Aldrin, who decked the guy - and rightfully so.

​@@maxsmith695Anyone sane would run away from Bart Sibrel, and/or punch him. A fuckwit of the highest order.

The interviewer is really dumbing the conversation down.

@@lowmax4431 not really. The opposite. Hes trying to answer technical questions that have a rather simple answer. Eg, the loneliness, the answer rather nicely given.

@MichaelKingsfordGray Amen.

Yes love the silent partner, orbiting the moon, while Neil takes awesome pictures of Buzz with his Hasselblad, mounted onto his chest, with no ability to focus, Neil truly was a genius.

Lol.

@@richardbrough4900 He didn't need to be a genius. They knew these cameras inside and out and had practiced countless hours using them. The Zeiss Biogon 60mm ƒ/5.6 lens and a simple thing called depth of field, another called a wide-angle lens, and something else called months of practice is all they needed.

NebTheWeb no he was a genius, those photos are good enough to have been shot in a studio.

Richard Brough Have You even seen all the photos they took? The wrongly exposed, out of focus and so on? No, I wouldn’t think so, you just come here to lie.

He was rude to Bart Sibrel when Bart offered him $5,000 to swear on a bible he went to the moon. Why would anyone get mad about that? Mike could have done that and given $5,000 to the Holocaust museum in LA.

@@maxsmith695 Mr. Collins honesty was not for sale, period!

Well said

sober up, stupid

@@miggrodriguez9996 For $5,000 all he had to do was place his hand on a bible and swear to God, he went to the moon. He refused. i will draw my own conclusions.

Yes... Just imagine his realizing this :)

@@MarkShinnick LMAO. Nobody is the world buys the moon landing fairy tale.

He was a rude and very hostile to a stranger, when he was offered $5,000 to place his hand on a bible and swear he went to the moon. Who refuses that kind of offer?

Are you for fucking real?

I nominate Lt Dan and Mike for best supporting actors in a science drama.

@@maxsmith695 Peddle your flattard trash elsewhere.

A consummate pilot Mike would probably have swallowed his grief and headed home, mourning every second of the trip. Even with a fully operational CSM he had no way at all to rescue his team mates. It simply was not capable of doing what would have been demanded of it. And he and they knew it.

Its all right, nothing happened, they even did go there.

@@pasisovi "They even did go there". What are you saying ?

They were on a military airbase. Security was air tight.

You're right, he made a very salient point, didn't duck the question at all, and still, he took that incredible role on. It is people such as Michael Collins who instill values into us.

@MichaelKingsfordGray NASA is a house of staged fiction. Grow up. 99% of the real world knows it is hoax.

@@maxsmith695 Idiot.

@@maxsmith695 you are truly uneducated

Nobody bought it.

Thank you for posting the info about the book, off to buy and read

@@MelanieAF And if may be so bold as to make another recommendation: Gene Kranz's book, failure is not an option, tells the story of the USA space programs from the other side of the action: from the Mission Control Center. I'm about half way through it at the moment and it's quite amazing to read about what can people achieve when they're fully committed and supported properly. And it's also about good leadership. Also highly recommend it, goes well after finishing "Carrying the Fire".

@@carpandrei7493 Thank you, I will add it to my list-this subject is so interesting, and I love learning about it:)

They tested the lunar rover fir the first time the "moon ". ROFLMAO. And had 4 mechanics in the back room in event it broke. LMAO Filmed in a studio.

@@maxsmith695 idiot

He never flew more than 200 miles from earth.

@@maxsmith695 Peddle your flattard trash elsewhere.

Lol 😅

Love that ending A great book written by him, considered to be the best book on what being an astronaut is like. Was so captivated by his writing I finished the book in a couple of days.

GHWB picked them because despite being tricked into it autistics would take responsibility without seeking credit huh? Like why he picked Oswald, Chapman, and Hinckley for LBJ’s hit on JFK that George Wallace did and his own hit on Lennon as the dry run for his attempt on Reagan. Think Jodie Foster’s ever figured out how she got used? Of course Yoko Ono’s too stupid to figure out Catcher in the Rye is probably on the Andover summer reading list. Space Force will HAVE to capture peoples minds as children because adults who don’t see through it must not have minds. Then again, I guess it’s the equivalent of not seeing through an “informant “named Deepthroat. So “supportive” to convince this guy doing a final lying interview was patriotic

It is indeed. I read it last year. Beautiful.

Glad you enjoyed it. I love his old age cynicism and honesty. Very bright man with a well-developed personality. RIP

Totally agree. "Carrying the Fire" ranks as one of THE BEST books ever written on spaceflight. Written by a true, amiable hero of the space age. The story of Apollo 11 never gets old and get even more remarkable as the years pass.

They always have non pilots and non aviation guys do the interview. Cannot ask a legit question for a very good reason. LMAO

Did he recall the stars ?

@@maxsmith695 Yes he did, he used them for navigation of the CSM. Try and keep up

I read he was born in Rome where his father was based. Anyway are you not forgetting about ‘The Big Fella’ A true Irish Hero.

In The Shadow Of The Moon was a great documentary, highly recommended for anyone interested in the Apollo programme and universe exploration in general. I think it was made in a perfect time (around year 2007) when most of the Apollo astronauts were alive, old, but not too old.

Not my hero.

@@maxsmith695 of course not, he didn't care for douche bags like you

This is what Neal said on tape when he claimed to be approaching the moon. " Roger Houston , we are going to rotate to negative 8 vector and slow the thrust engines for landing in Canyon 88V- Copy." He was actually in New Mexico on Cannon Air Force Base. You fooled some people with Trump level IQ's Neal. Rest of the world called it BS. Hoax and a poor one at.

There is NO ONE scientific and academic institution that endorses the Apollo myth, that defends the supposed moon travels, only the dodgy typical blah-blah-blah sites.

@@pasisovi 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡👹👺

Look for his talk at MIT with David Mindell. Way better! There are many good interviews with Mike. I'd say, read his book. Hard Talk is rubbish, Stephen Sackur is useless to be honest. He drives the same interview style whoever he has in front of him. Based on his book, I'd say Mike didn't enjoy that very much. If Stephen read Mikes biography, he didn't take away anything from it. It's all in the book, which was actually written by Mike himself. Hard talk should have gone for Aldrin. Pitty Young ain't around anymore, would have been a treat to see this guy try to interview him... It would have been a massacre! Mike is just to polite to bite back, John Young was nothing like that.

Very true

High risk of slipping again n his lies, as in their first press conference.

@@pasisovi shut up flat earthers

@@MichaelMyers66793 that is what we are doing, shutting up moon landers, believers like earth flaters

LMAO. That reveal is why they never talked in public about any Apollo details again. Does not mater, there are 100,000 proven facts that debunk the missions. Now on the Mars for more fakery.

@@maxsmith695 They were on the sunlit side of moon. Do you see stars during daytime?

@@maxsmith695 Peddle your flattard trash elsewhere.

@johnnythepr1ck Cabin lights on full.

@johnnythepr1ck No, not 'we', because what you describe did not happen. Telemetry tapes were reused for the SkyLab program. All that was recorded on those was spacecraft function like coolant temp, power levels, and consumables--useless info once the mission was ended. Apollo 11 carried motion and film cameras and its photographic record is perfectly intact as is the VTR recording of the TV camera used during the lunar EVA. Oh yeah--Apollo 11's lunar sample return has been under continuous study since 1970. Anyway, sky photography is utterly irrelevant to A FIRST LUNAR LANDING MISSION, dingbat. Apollo 16 did carry an astronomical telescope for stellar observations, however. So, get your facts straight--and learn the rest. My guess is that when you go on vacation you ignore the sights and examine the toilets to 'prove' you 'went somewhere'.

LMAO.

@@maxsmith695

@@ruthlesslyuninfluencedbyin2525 - moon landing is as real as Santa.

@@maxsmith695 Santa is as real as your ability to fact-check and acknowledge evidence.

I second that! An excellent read actually written by Collins himself (no ghostwriters or collaborators). Collins had a talent for writing. An intelligent man as well as an officer and a gentleman (West Point graduate).

Batman was my hero.

@@maxsmith695 Peddle your flattard trash elsewhere.

They dodged most questions by saying, " we had a mission to do" and "we were focused on the mission". These are scripted replies used to often and too many times with exact wording. Mission? Planting a flag ? Hitting a golf ball ? And not one complaint it was too hot or too cold? A REAL hero, like Captain Sully who landed an Airbus in the Hudson River did have to focus 100% on the mission, but not even he keeps using that phrase. Capt Sully discussed things like the amount of time, the weather, the impending rescue, the strength of the plane. He covered a ton of ground, but he did not have to worry about saying the wrong thing. The scripted Apollo line " we were focused on the mission ", is ridiculous for so many, many reasons. The perfectly clear radio chatter......... is mostly people who say they are in Houston saying, "Looking Good" and the men in the other room or studio saying back to the other side, " looking good". Those are wasted and useless words. Pilots talk in terms of speed, altitude, settings, headings and timelines. There is no use in saying looking good, because it means nothing. Pilots in airplanes and the ground controllers do not banter back and forth with those pilots, by continually repeating the line, " Looking good ". Looking good is a meaningless term. When a pilot is facing an emergency landing, you will never hear the ATC say, " looking good."

@@maxsmith695, just come on! You want to compare Houston Control to Air Traffic Control? There is some difference!

@@maxsmith695 Peddle your flattard trash elsewhere.

He ran away from Bart Sibrel who offered him $5,000 CASH, to swear on a bible he went to the moon. . He refused ROFLMAO. Why did he run ?

@@maxsmith695 I think another astronaut did it on everyone's behalf. Gene cernan I think or scott carpenter.

They went. You werent even a gleam in your father's eyes yet.

@@floyddwarrel4726 No they did not. The senior executive at NASA in charge of a team of risk mgrs calculated the risk of total mission failure at 95%. for your information, because you do not research things, NASA did have a risk threshold they did not exceed on mission. If the chance of total mission failure was GREATER than 1/4 of 1%, the mission was a no go. Is 95% greater than 1/4 of 1% ? Yes, it is 380 times greater.

@@maxsmith695 I worked on the equipment they used. They went.

He could have taken off and left them on the moon? Why would he do that though? I mean - he would have had to do so without directive from mission control if he did. He had no reason to even consider doing such a thing. The only scenario where he would do that would be if the astronauts suffered some catastrophic failure on the moon and would be unable to lift off and rendezvous back with the command module. Short of that, there is zero advantage from Collins leaving the moon early. This notion that he could have done that is just pure nonsense. Yeah, he also could have brought a gun and shot them dead, but he didn't; what a hero... Make no mistake, he is an American hero, but in no way, shape, or form is he a hero for not stranding his fellow crew mates on the moon. This is absurd. This is like giving fathers awards for not beating their kids. You don't get an award for that. You don't get accolades for that. You're not SUPPOSED to beat your kids. You'd be a terrible person if you did, and Collins would have been a terrible person for leaving them behind for literally no reason. I mean, the more I think about what you said, the more bizarre it becomes. Why would you even think that? It's just asinine.

@@willoughbykrenzteinburg space rebellion- that was just a joke to make you laugh, apparently you took it too seriously. If anything Michael Collins would have killed himself to save his fellow apollomates. if Neil and Buzz somehow didn't get off the moon, Mike would probably stay in lunar orbit till the other two perished, only then would he be the lone man to come back from a failed mission- thus making him the unsung hero.

@@spankyharland9845 Ah - missed the joke! Yeah, he probably had the most stressful training. While Neil and Buzz were training to take photos, set up equipment, how to walk in 1/6 G, etc., Collins was preparing to pilot the CSM home.......alone. So glad none of the CSMs had to do that. I'm sure they are too. It certainly would be hard to leave without your crew mates for lots of reasons.

@@willoughbykrenzteinburg all the CM pilots took their job seriously- even though they didn't get to step on the moon. They were the lone astronauts who were forgotten while all the attention was drawn on the other two who were hopping about on the moon surface. The only Apollo rebellion I read about was Apollo 7- Wally Schirra's crew- they were overwhelmed by all sorts of task, and then all of them got head colds and didn't want to re-enter the earth wearing their space helmets...against Nasa protocols...Wally retired after that mission, and his crewmates never ever got to ride to the moon and back.

@@spankyharland9845 ill have to refresh myself on that one. Sounds familiar

Stop lying to him it's only people's imaginations that's been there.

One day he figures out the truth.

He was pushed into retirement.c