Astronomy / Space Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies aged 90

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Para Handy
The guy sometimes called "the loneliest man in history", looping around the Moon by himself in the command module whilst the two others did the landing, has died at age 90.

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Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dies at 90

Michael Collins stayed in orbit as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon in 1969.
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Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, dies aged 90

Collins, known as the ‘forgotten astronaut’, kept command module flying while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon
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I'm sure most youngsters will know the names of Armstrong and Aldrin, I wonder how many know that Collins was on the mission too.
 

Arioch

Arioch
I always found him very interesting and funny to listen to - at one point in the mission he was over the far side of the Moon and the most distant person from the whole human race; he put it like, “there’s two guys down there, everyone else was over there, and then there was me with no one to talk to” 😁
 
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