Michael Collins (astronaut)
| Michael Collins | |
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Collins in July 1969
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 NASA Astronaut |
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| Nationality | American |
| Status | Retired |
| Born | Michael Collins October 31, 1930 Rome, Italy |
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Other occupation
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Test pilot |
| USMA, B.S. 1952 | |
| Rank |
 Major General, USAF
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Time in space
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11 days, 2 hours, 04 minutes, 43 seconds |
| Selection | 1963 NASA Group 3 |
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Total EVAs
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2 |
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Total EVA time
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1 hour 28 minutes |
| Missions | Gemini 10, Apollo 11 |
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Mission insignia
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| Retirement | January 1970 |
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Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930), (Major General, USAF, Ret.), is an Italian-born American former astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was as the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11. While he stayed in orbit around the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left in the Lunar Module to make the first manned landing on its surface. He is one of 24 people to have flown to the Moon.
Collins was the fourth person, and third American, to perform an EVA; and is the first person to have performed more than one EVA.
Prior to becoming an astronaut, he attended the United States Military Academy, and from there he joined the United States Air Force and flew F-86s at Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, France. He was accepted to the U.S. Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960. He unsuccessfully applied for the second astronaut group, but was accepted for the third group.
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