Michael Collins monostich (expanded)

All alone, in radio silence / 

at the dark side  of the moon

[Note:  This astronaut, the "Forgotten Man" of Apollo 11, here presents an impecable, though scarcely emulable, case of Social Distancing.  He was many years ahead of his time.]

[Update:  In his articles about the moon landing,  Fire on the Moon (1969f.), Norman Mailer recounts the moment when Collins finally regained contact with ground-control, some time after Armstrong and Aldrin had begun their televised romp on the surface:

The voice of Collins came into the public address system.  He had been out of radio contact for almost a hour during his trip around the back of the moon, so he did not know how the Extra Vehicular Activity [i.e., the moonwalk] was proceeding. … Now he asked, “How’s it going?”

Capcom: Roger. The EVA is progressing beautifully.  I believe they are setting up the flag now.

Collins:  Great.

The audience [at the Houston center] laughed at this hard pea of envy  beneath twenty mattresses of NASA manners.

It didn’t help when Capcom added, “I guess you’re about the only person around that doesn’t have TV coverage of the scene.”