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Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Has Passed Away at the Age of 90
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Michael Collins, the American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 Columbia command module around the moon, died on April 28, 2021 at age 90, after battling cancer.
Michael Collins,
the American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11Columbia
command module around the moon by himself while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface, passed away on April 28, 2021 at age 90, after battling cancer.
While Armstrong and Aldrin were the first to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, it was Collins who ensured the Apollo 11 mission was a success. As the mission’s command module pilot, Collins was alone in the Columbia ....

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