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Michael "Mike" Collins (October 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface.
Collins was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Washington D.C. She is the eldest child of astronaut Michael Collins, who served as Command Module Pilot on the historic Apollo 11 mission (the first human Moon landing) in 1969, and Patricia Collins née Finnegan. [2]
James Lawton Collins (December 10, 1882 – June 30, 1963) was an American major general of the U.S. Army who served in World War I and World War II, and was the father of Apollo 11 astronaut Maj. Gen. Michael Collins, USAF Reserve (ret.), and Brigadier General James Lawton Collins Jr.
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, died Wednesday of cancer, his ...
The former NASA astronaut’s death was announced on his Facebook page Michael Collins, a former NASA astronaut who was on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer.
Collins flew Apollo 11's command module around the Moon as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin visited the surface.
They read Carrying the Fire, the 1974 book by Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, and she met with him in his office at the National Air and Space Museum. [19] She also met with another former astronaut, John Glenn, who was now a United States senator from her home state of Ohio. [27]
Michael Collins or Mike Collins most commonly refers to: Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890–1922), Irish revolutionary leader, soldier, and politician Michael Collins (astronaut) (1930–2021), American astronaut, member of Apollo 11 and Gemini 10 crews