Who is Your Favorite Apollo Astronaut?

[Smersh]

Michael Collins.

I feel a bit sorry for him actually because everyone forgot about him, and he didn't get to see history being made live on tv like many people back on Earth did.

[raoul]

It should be all of them.

Dave Scott, however, for a magnificent Apollo 15, for his interest in science (geology) though he was a pilot and for giving us science lessons on the Moon when he had a minute free.

[onesmallstep]

Now that all of the intense celebration concerning the 40th anniversary is dying down, I thought I would go through the thread and tally the picks for favorite Apollo guy.

My only complaint about the 40th anniversary event is that all of the hoopla surrounding it completely obscured the Michael Jackson death coverage.

But anyway, the winner of the very unscientific SDC "Who is your favorite Apollo astronaut" selection goes to....


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Buzz Aldrin

Followed in a close second by John Young.



Very good picks, and thanks to all who participated.

[Kerberos]

I hate sounding like everyone else, but it has to be John Young, just because he is a fellow Rambling Wreck (and a Hell of an engineer).

[onesmallstep]

Two more votes for John Young and he becomes the winner.

Hey Buzz, come back here with that trophy!!!

[Lunatic1]

I must agree with imjeffp with saying that Conrad and Bean brought a very "human" quality to the Apollo program. Pete Conrad, in particular, was the antithesis of the perceived view of astronauts being half machine, half engineer. For a man with such high responsibilities to be a great astronaut and at the same time, a wicked character, has to be unique in the history of lunar exploration!

[hewes]

Neil A. Armstrong

[notthatguy]

Buzz Aldrin, for punching that moon landing skeptic in the face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOo6aHSY8hU

Just awesome.

Gotta love Buzz

[ZenGalacticore]

Michael Collins.

I feel a bit sorry for him actually because everyone forgot about him, and he didn't get to see history being made live on tv like many people back on Earth did.

Oh come on Smersh! I don't feel sorry for anybody who got a chance to orbit the Moon! I can't imagine such blissful solitude!! (Admittedly, somewhat unnerving solitude it must have been, especially when he was orbiting the far side of the Moon without radio communication.)