A Man Eclipsed By the Moon

It has been said that the Apollo astronauts who were alone in the command module, while their fellow travellers went down to the Moon surface, were the loneliest humans ever. This is because when they were sitting there alone on the far side of the Moon, they were very far from the other two astronauts and further away from Earth than any human had been before and has been since. You can say that they were eclipsed by the Moon, vis-a-vis the Earth. I read an interesting article about one of these men, Al Worden, who was the command module astronaut on Apollo 15. He rather enjoyed being there alone, he said. I understand that. A lunar eclipse can be a rather good thing.