I enjoyed the fact that I was on one side 
of this little satellite of our planet and
Neil and Buzz were somewhere over
on the other side of it, and then there 
were three billion people a quarter of a 
million miles away.  And that was all 
over there and if I looked in the other
direction there was God knows what:
only me and the rest of the universe.  I
liked that feeling, being part of the 
rest of the universe instead of part of 
the Solar System.  I didn't mind being
in that corner of the universe alone by
myself.  I enjoyed that.  I wish someone
would have communicated with me,
but no one did.

-Michael Collins, 
   from the moon