--- title: Michael Collins Returns to Apollo 11 Site on 50th Anniversary description: Michael Collins revisited the site of the 1969 moon launch 50 years after his mission with fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. canonical: https://time.com/5627290/apollo-11-astronauts-moon-landing-anniversary/ author: Jasmine Aguilera article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-16T13:09:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T22:33:04.000Z article:section: Science og:title: ‘Wonderful Feeling to Be Back.’ Astronaut Michael Collins Returns to Apollo 11 Launch Site on 50th Anniversary og:description: The astronaut returned to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday og:url: https://time.com/5627290/apollo-11-astronauts-moon-landing-anniversary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee7f32f65beaf66/698a0004b21a9c16175020e2/nasa-moon-landing-anniversary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3198 og:image:height: 1799 og:image:alt: Nixon And Astronauts og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: ‘Wonderful Feeling to Be Back.’ Astronaut Michael Collins Returns to Apollo 11 Launch Site on 50th Anniversary twitter:description: The astronaut returned to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee7f32f65beaf66/698a0004b21a9c16175020e2/nasa-moon-landing-anniversary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # ‘Wonderful Feeling to Be Back.’ Astronaut Michael Collins Returns to Apollo 11 Launch Site on 50th Anniversary > Sponsored content. 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Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the United States, with American astronauts, (from left), Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, after the astronauts' successful moon-landing expedition. Consolidated News Pictures—Getty Images by [Jasmine Aguilera](https://time.com/author/jasmine-aguilera/) ## Jasmine Aguilera Updated: Dec 12, 2023 10:33 PM UTCPublished: Jul 16, 2019 1:09 PM UTC [Michael Collins](https://time.com/4085079/michael-collins-astronaut-birthday/) revisited the exact site of the historic [1969 launch to the moon](https://time.com/5626388/apollo-11-tapes-auction/) Tuesday precisely 50 years after his famous mission alongside fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and [Buzz Aldrin](https://time.com/4702519/buzz-aldrin-virtual-reality/). The anniversary celebration was supposed to be a reunion with Aldrin at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but the 88-year-old canceled his appearance, according to the Associated Press. “There’s a difference this time. I want to turn and ask Neil \[Armstrong\] a question and maybe tell Buzz Aldrin something, and of course, I’m here by myself,” Collins told Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana during a Q&A session. He added it’s a “wonderful feeling to be back.” The Q&A is one of [many events taking place throughout the country](https://time.com/5623215/celebrate-apollo-50th-anniversary/) in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, including an attempt to break a Guinness World Record for [most model rockets launched at the same time](https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/launches-and-events/events-calendar/2019/july/apollo-11-global-launch-event) from a single location at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala. Aldrin and Collins are the two surviving astronauts who were joined by [Neil Armstrong](https://time.com/5621999/neil-armstrong-quote/) on the July 16, 1969 mission to the moon. Four days after the launch, Aldrin and Armstrong became the first people to walk on the moon, while Collins stayed aboard the Apollo 11 tending to the ship. [Armstrong died in 2012](https://time.com/24596/neil-armstrong-private-man-public-hero-photos/). “After the flight of Apollo 11, Neil, Buzz and I were lucky,” Collins [told TIME in a Q&A published July 11](https://time.com/5624528/michael-collins-apollo-11/). “We made a round-the-world trip. I think 25 major cities, something on that order. And I was flabbergasted. I thought that when we went someplace they’d say, ‘Well, congratulations. You Americans finally did it.’ And instead of that, unanimously the reaction was, ‘We did it. We humans finally left this planet and went past escape velocity.'” Tuesday’s celebration also included a look at NASA’s future mission to [Mars and the Moon](https://www.nasa.gov/specials/moon2mars/) aboard the Artemus. NASA will continue to celebrate the anniversary [throughout the week](https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-historic-moon-landing-with-live-tv-broadcast) at locations across the country, including a three-day Apollo 50 Festival with the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5627290/apollo-11-astronauts-moon-landing-anniversary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5627290/apollo-11-astronauts-moon-landing-anniversary/"},"headline":"‘Wonderful Feeling to Be Back.’ Astronaut Michael Collins Returns to Apollo 11 Launch Site on 50th Anniversary","datePublished":"2019-07-16T13:09:10.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T22:33:04.000Z","description":"The astronaut returned to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday","url":"https://time.com/5627290/apollo-11-astronauts-moon-landing-anniversary/","keywords":["Space","U.S.","onetime","Science","apollo1150"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee7f32f65beaf66/698a0004b21a9c16175020e2/nasa-moon-landing-anniversary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jasmine Aguilera","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jasmine-aguilera/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcee7f32f65beaf66/698a0004b21a9c16175020e2/nasa-moon-landing-anniversary.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nixon And Astronauts","caption":"Nixon And Astronauts","creditText":"Consolidated News Pictures—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5627290/apollo-11-astronauts-moon-landing-anniversary/","name":"‘Wonderful Feeling to Be Back.’ Astronaut Michael Collins Returns to Apollo 11 Launch Site on 50th Anniversary"}}]}] ```