Michael Collins, the loneliest man in history, dies
Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in orbit 60 miles above the moon while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Colonel Buzz Aldrin, became the first men to walk on the lunar surface, died on Wednesday. He was 90. A statement released by Collins’s family on Twitter said the cause was cancer. Advertisement It was an epic moment of exploration, an instant when the fantasy of science fiction writers became a reality. And when it transpired, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Collins of the Air Force was the loneliest man in history. When the lunar module Eagle, descending from ...
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