So Katie, this has been a sad week for the space community as we learned to the passing

of Michael Collins and of course Michael Collins was part of that original Apollo 11 crew

mission to the moon in 1969. How well did you know him? I have to say that we are we are all

a family and he isn't especially treasured member of that family. When he was really just he's

was so generous to many of us you know even in the past weeks sharing perspective just like

just the right perspective at their at the right time and he's just a very he's a very special

person with an astonishing career but mostly he's we did we'll just really get him. Yeah and it

always strikes me when we have these conversations just how tight knit this community of astronauts

is and how deeply knit you are with that that experience that you all share in common.

Well something that I think really sticks out is you know for someone who was part of such

and historic mission and played such a pivotal role being the the command module pilot the

Columbia command module being in orbit around the moon while Neil Armstrong and in Buzz Aldrin were

on the moon it was a pivotal role and it seems like somebody like that must be so like up on this

pedestal and you'd never be able to reach them and as soon as you meet him you can reach him

and you know it even past that I don't know if you know he has a Twitter account. Yeah so actually

you were telling me about this and I you you should share some of this because it just actually

blew my mind in terms of the humanity of Michael just just a few days ago he wrote one that said

you've seen the world in my window now I want to celebrate what the world looks like through your

windows snap a picture of your favorite view and use the tag world in my window let's celebrate

the beauty in the world around us and I find that so moving I knowing everything that we now know

especially coming out to his passing that he was still able to inspire up until that point

and just on earth day just last week I'm certain if everyone could see the earth floating just

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