In 1980, he took a job as vice president of LTV Aerospace. A year later, he became the director of the National Air and Space Museum, and held this position until 1978, when he stepped down to become undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the fourth person (and third American) to perform a spacewalk, the first person to have performed more than one spacewalk, and, after Young, who flew the command module on Apollo 10, the second person to orbit the Moon alone.Īfter retiring from NASA in 1970, Collins took a job in the Department of State as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. On the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he became one of 24 people to fly to the Moon, which he orbited thirty times. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10 in 1966, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed orbital rendezvous with two spacecraft and undertook two extravehicular activities (EVAs, also known as spacewalks).
Selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963, Collins flew in space twice. Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960, also graduating from the Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class III). He joined the United States Air Force, and flew F-86 Sabre fighters at Chambley-Bussières Air Base, France. Air Force Reserves.īorn in Rome, Italy, Collins graduated in the Class of 1952 from the United States Military Academy. He was also a test pilot and major general in the U.S. Michael Collins (Octo– April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface.
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