Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, at an Explorers Club dinner in Manhattan in March, commemorating the moon mission’s 50th anniversary.Credit...Krista Schlueter for The New York Times ...

Editor's note: On April 28, 2021, Michael Collins' family announced that the Apollo 11 astronaut had died. After a battle with cancer, the family reported, Collins (90) passed away "peacefully ...

Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who orbited the moon alone while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their historic first steps on the lunar surface, died Wednesday. He was 90. Collins died ...

Michael Collins did not walk on the Moon ... But Collins has no sense of being an outsider when it comes to Apollo 11. His task was so critical to the mission, and he was so close to his ...

He died in 2012, the first of the Apollo 11 to pass. Michael Collins graduated West Point in 1952, opting to join the Air Force. He served as a fighter pilot for several years before transitioning ...

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". When you ...

The Apollo 11 mission took off from the Kennedy Space Center on the morning of July 16. Armstrong, Aldrin and Michael Collins, the command module pilot, made the Apollo 11 crew. The mission from ...

Apollo 11. On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in the Lunar Module Eagle and became the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface while astronaut Michael Collins ...

The last surviving crew member of Apollo 11 opens up about his pioneering ... and rocketed upward to rejoin command module pilot Michael Collins — who had been orbiting the moon in that module ...

Even 55 years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon ... Buzz Aldrin would later join him on the lunar surface while Michael Collins circled the moon in the command module Columbia.

Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. and Michael Collins, the crew of Apollo 11. The astronauts weren't recognized for landing on the moon, but rather for their contributions to the television industry.