think or thwim

The reclusive Neil Armstrong is notably absent, but the rest of the Apollo astronauts talk about their time on the moon.

Wherever we went, people, instead of saying, “Well, you Americans did it,” everywhere they said, ‘”We did it”—we humankind, we the human race, we people did it. I’d never heard of people in different countries use this word we we we as emphatically as we were hearing from Europeans, Asians, Africans. Wherever we went it was, “We finally did it.”

I thought that was a wonderful thing. Ephemeral, but wonderful.

– Michael Collins, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot