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Michael Collins did not walk on the Moon; instead, he orbited the lunar surface during that first Moon landing, keeping vigil over Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as they walked the surface below.
Died: April 28, 2021. MICHAEL COLLINS became fed up with answering the question about once having been the loneliest man in the universe as he circled the Moon in 1969. Eventually, he cautioned interviewers that he would throw them out of the room if the question was put to him. What that suggests is the Apollo 11 astronaut had a rocket fuse that could go off at any time. But that wasn’t the case at all. Collins, it transpires, was simply irritated by the repetition. “I wasn’t lonely while I waited for the docking procedure”, he once explained. “I was alone. But that’s not the same thing. I was happy to be in the spaceship, happy to do my job.”
âThird manâ of the moon landing dies at 90
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MICHAEL COLLINS: 1930 - 2021
Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in orbit 97 kilometres 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 at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida. He was 90.
A statement released by Mr Collinsâs family on Twitter said the cause was cancer.
Apollo 11 command module pilot astronaut Michael Collins takes a break during training for the moon mission, in Cape Kennedy, Florida.
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