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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
David Axe
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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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