Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins in July 1969 Courtesy of NASA via Reuters Near the top of the list, perhaps, was the single engine that had to fire successfully to propel Armstrong and Aldrin ...

Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins. (Image credit: NASA) A member of NASA's third group of astronauts selected in 1963, Collins path to joining the first moon landing began with a ...

— Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut. As any history book will tell you, NASA was successful in its mission testing. On that fateful day, July 16, 1969, Collins, ...

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 may not be a household name like his fellow Apollo 11 crewmembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, but he played a pivotal role in the success of the epic mission.

Astronaut Michael Collins, 88, returned to where it all began -- the spot where Apollo 11 launched into space 50 years ago Tuesday. He reflected on the mission that brought man to the moon and ...

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 ...

Astronaut Michael Collins (right) and NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana (left) shake hands at Launch Complex 39A on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, on July 16, 2019.

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.

American astronaut Michael Collins, who as pilot of the Apollo 11 command module stayed behind on July 20, 1969, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled to the lunar surface to become the ...

Apollo 11 crew Neil Armstrong (from left), Michael Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. EPA “He may not have received equal glory, but he was an equal partner, reminding our nation about the ...

Michael Collins, the NASA astronaut and retired Air Force general who piloted Apollo 11's history-making mission to the moon, died at 90.