I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

Michael Collins, the astronaut who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia as Neil Armstrong and Col. Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, died of cancer today. He was 90. His family, which includes ...

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Michael Collins, the astronaut who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia as Neil Armstrong and Col. Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon, ... (Collins’ wife Patricia died in 2014.) ...

Patricia Collins, 83; wrote about being an astronaut’s wife ... At the Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, she met Michael Collins, a US Air Force fighter pilot who also traced his ancestry to Ireland.

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins NASA. Collins joined NASA as an astronaut in 1963, part of the ... He was devoted to his wife, Pat, their three children, and his whole family.

Astronaut Michael Collins, ... Collins’s wife of 56 years, the former Patricia Finnegan, died in 2014. Their son, Michael L. Collins, died in 1993. Besides Starr, ...

Astronaut Michael Collins, one of the three members of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969, has died after a “valiant” battle with cancer, his family said Wednesday.

Collins was preceded in death by his wife of 57 years, Patricia Finnegan, and son, Michael. He is survived by two daughters, Kate Collins and Anne Collins Starr, and seven grandchildren.