pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more "normal" future. There's never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. Michael Collins, command module pilot on Apollo 11, dies at 90 Michael Collins stands in front the steel skeleton of the new National Air and Space Museum in Washington in July 1974. Collins was director from 1971 to 1978. (Doug Chevalier/Washington Post) Published April 28. 2021 5:02PM Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post