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Michael Collins (astronaut)
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Michael Collins (astronaut)
Michael Collins
(born October 31, 1930),
Major General
,
USAF
, Ret., is an
American
former
astronaut
and
test pilot
. Selected as part of the
third group of fourteen astronauts
in 1963, he flew into
space
twice. His first spaceflight was on
Gemini 10
, in which he and Command Pilot
John Young
performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two
EVA
s. His second spaceflight was as the
Command Module
Pilot for
Apollo 11
. While he stayed in orbit around the
Moon
,
Neil Armstrong
and
Buzz Aldrin
left in the
Lunar Module
to make the first manned landing on its surface. He is one of only
24 people to have flown to the Moon
.
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