Command module pilot Michael Collins took this iconic Apollo 11 photo 55 years ago today, after his historic trip around the far side of the moon made him "the world's loneliest man".

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

Collins also designed Apollo 11’s iconic mission patch. ... Michael Collins takes a moment alone during the opening of the National Air and Space Museum in July 1976.

Michael Collins' grand-niece, Helen Collins lays a wreath at the spot where the iconic photograph of her grand-uncle was taken in August 1922, in Cathal Brugha Barracks just days before he was ...

Mike Collins created the flight’s iconic Apollo 11 mission patch and also served as the first director of the National ... (NASM). Commander Michael Collins, inspired and supported by Barry ...

Michael Collins, the man who stayed behind aboard the Apollo 11 command module while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon and walked into history, died Wednesday after a ...

Michael Collins — the “forgotten astronaut” aboard the first spaceflight ever to land humans on the moon — died Wednesday after a battle with cancer, his family announced. He was 90.

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Michael Collins, the NASA astronaut and retired Air Force general who piloted Apollo 11's mission to the moon, died early Wednesday, according to a statement from his ...

Michael Collins kept an orbital vigil during Neil’s and Buzz’s moonwalk, but he really didn’t feel that lonely. Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, at an Explorers Club dinner in Manhattan ...

O'Brien asked Collins about the idea of traveling to Mars, and Collins said he's down to take humanity there. "When I came back from Apollo 11, I used to joke that NASA sent me to the wrong place ...