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Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins during 1969 visit: I feel like I belong in New Orleans
The NASA astronaut who died Wednesday considered New Orleans his adopted home. His father & grandfather were born here. He visited in 1969 after the moon landing.
Credit: AP Author: Dominic Massa / WWL-TV Updated: 3:26 PM CDT April 28, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who died Wednesday at 90, called New Orleans his adopted hometown. His father and grandfather were both born here and another relative was a former mayor.
“I don’t feel like I’m really adopted. I feel like I belong in New Orleans,” Collins said in a Sept. 6, 1969 article in The States-Item newspaper, chronicling a visit to the city by the astronaut just a few months after the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
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