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Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, dies at 90

Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, dies at 90
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Michael Collins Fast Facts

Michael Collins Fast Facts
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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.” ....

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Michael Collins, who circled the moon while his Apollo 11 crew mates landed, dies at 90

Michael Collins, who circled the moon while Apollo 11 crewmen landed, dies at 90
He kept the command module going and running through the 117-page list of contingencies he d prepared in the event anything went awry.
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Apollo 11 command module pilot astronaut Michael Collins takes a break during training for the moon mission, in Cape Kennedy, Fla., in 1969. 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. Associated Press
On July 20, 1969, eight years after President John F. Kennedy pledged to land a man on the lunar surface and return him safely to Earth, astronaut Michael Collins sat alone in the command module Columbia. He was floating 60 miles above what he later called the “withered, sun-seared peach pit” of the moon. ....

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Michael Collins, the Apollo Astronaut Who Kept His Eye on the Bigger Picture, Dead at 90

Michael Collins, the Apollo Astronaut Who Kept His Eye on the Bigger Picture, Dead at 90
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Orbiting some 60 miles overhead in the Apollo 11 command module, 38-year-old Michael Collins enjoyed a brief moment of peace and quiet as the module passed around the dark side of the moon, cutting off all communication with Earth.
“It was a wonderful experience,” Collins said in 2016. “The fact that it was quiet silent, utterly was good, not bad. It gave me some time off of mission control telling me to do this and that.”
That contentment and calm in stark contrast to the late Armstrong’s stalwart statesmanship and Aldrin’s romantic volatility defined Collins’ long life. The man who shepherded the first two men to stand on the moon died on April 28 at the age of 90. ....

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Michael Collins Fast Facts - Local News 8

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.” ....

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