Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies aged 90
Michael Collins (1930 - 2021)
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Apollo 11 astronaut Major General Michael Collins (USAF (Retired)) has died at the age of 90 after a battle with cancer. In 1969, Collins was the Command Module Pilot for the first crewed lunar landing, and remained in orbit aboard the Command Service Module (CSM) Columbia while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the surface.
One of the third group of NASA astronauts chosen in the 1960s, Michael Collins was born on October 31, 1930 in Rome, Italy, where his father was the US military attaché. As an Army brat, he spent his childhood in many locations and joined the US Air Force in 1952, becoming a fighter pilot and later a test pilot.
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Collins remained alone in the command module for more than 21 hours until his two fellow astronauts returned
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April 29, 2021
Command Module pilot Michael Collins practices in the CM simulator at the Kennedy Space Center ahead of the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 19, 1969. NASA PHOTO: REUTERS
American astronaut Michael Collins, who as pilot of the Apollo 11 command module stayed behind on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled to the lunar surface to become the first humans to walk on the moon, died on Wednesday at age 90, his family said.