Michael Collins Fast Facts
Personal
Death date: April 28, 2021
Birth place: Rome, Italy
Mother: Virginia (Stewart) Collins
Children: Michael, Ann and Kathleen
Education: United States Military Academy at West Point, B.S., 1952; Harvard University, Advanced Management Program, 1974
Military Service: US Air Force, 1952-1970, Major General
Other Facts
Collins completed two space flights during his career, logging 266 hours in space – 1 hour and 27 minutes of this was spacewalking.
Said he believes that extraterrestrials do exist, telling the New York Daily News in 1999: “It seems to me the height of arrogance to say that our little stupid sun off in one obscure corner of an odd galaxy called the Milky Way should be the only one in the whole universe capable of developing what we sometimes refer to as intelligent life.”
Michael Collins Fast Facts
Personal
Death date: April 28, 2021
Birth place: Rome, Italy
Mother: Virginia (Stewart) Collins
Children: Michael, Ann and Kathleen
Education: United States Military Academy at West Point, B.S., 1952; Harvard University, Advanced Management Program, 1974
Military Service: US Air Force, 1952-1970, Major General
Other Facts
Collins completed two space flights during his career, logging 266 hours in space – 1 hour and 27 minutes of this was spacewalking.
Said he believes that extraterrestrials do exist, telling the New York Daily News in 1999: “It seems to me the height of arrogance to say that our little stupid sun off in one obscure corner of an odd galaxy called the Milky Way should be the only one in the whole universe capable of developing what we sometimes refer to as intelligent life.”