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Człowiek i Astronautyka => Osobistości => Wątek zaczęty przez: Orionid w Lipca 21, 2019, 23:38
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Michael Collins (http://lk.astronautilus.pl/astros/28.htm) urodził się dokładnie 70 lat przed startem 1 Ekspedycji na ISS.
Jako trzeci Amerykanin odbył spacer kosmiczny (i jako czwarty człowiek).
50 lat temu podczas misji Apollo 11 pełnił funkcję pilota modułu dowodzenia. Tę funkcję powierzano doświadczonym astronautom. Po sukcesie misji nie chciał już wracać w kosmos.
27. (28) człowiek w kosmosie.
Jego 2 loty kosmiczne trwały łącznie 11d 02h 05m 13s.
Odbył 2 spacery kosmiczne, które trwały łącznie 01h 28m.
https://www.nasa.gov/former-astronaut-michael-collins/
http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/astronauts/english/collins_michael.htm
http://www.astronautix.com/c/collins.html
https://www.worldspaceflight.com/bios/c/collins-m.php
https://mek.kosmo.cz/bio/usa/00027.htm
http://www.kozmo-data.sk/kozmonauti/collins-michael.html
https://www.astronaut.ru/crossroad/027.htm
https://www.april12.eu/usaastron/collins28ru.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut))
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronauta) (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronauta))
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/CollinsM/CollinsM_10-8-97.htm
https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years-ago-mike-collins-neck-surgery-announced/
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Wątek poświęcony Apollo 11 https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=184.0
O książce astronauty: Artykuły astronautyczne (https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3608.msg131311#msg131311)
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=200.msg133792#msg133792
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Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin i ten trzeci. Kim jest Michael Collins, pilot modułu dowodzenia Apollo 11
Adam Turek 19 lipca 2019
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Michael Collins dostał się do NASA w 1963 roku. Wziął udział w misjach Gemini 10 i Apollo 11. Był pilotem modułu dowodzenia w misji Apollo 11. Foto: Bettmann / Getty Images
Neil Armstrong i Buzz Aldrin przeszli do historii jako pierwsi astronauci, którzy stanęli na Księżycu. W misji Apollo 11 nie brali jednak udziału sami. Ich bezpieczeństwa pilnował Michael Collins – pilot modułu dowodzenia, który okrążał Księżyc, gdy Armstrong i Aldrin zbierali próbki.
Michael Collins wziął udział misji Apollo 11 wraz z Neilem Armstrongiem i Buzzem Aldrinem
Jako jedyny członek załogi nie wylądował jednak na Księżycu
Collins okrążał Księżyc w module dowodzenia. Bez niego astronauci nie wróciliby bezpiecznie na Ziemię
Michael Collins pochodzi z wojskowej rodziny. Urodził się w 31 października 1930 roku w Rzymie, gdzie stacjonował akurat jego ojciec – generał dywizji James Lawton Collins. Oprócz ojca Collinsa w wojsku służyli również: jego brat, dwóch wujków, i kuzyn. Michael Collins poszedł w ich ślady, ale postanowił dołączyć do Sił Powietrznych Stanów Zjednoczonych.
Michael Collins – od pilota do astronauty
Miał 31 lat i był już pilotem, gdy John F. Kennedy ogłaszał w 1961 roku, że do końca dekady USA wyśle ludzi na Księżyc. NASA miała wtedy zaledwie siedmiu astronautów – wybranych do programu Mercury. Agencja potrzebowała nowych ludzi do misji Gemini i Apollo.
Collins chciał dołączyć do programu misji kosmicznych. Uznawał to za awans. Udało mu się dostać do NASA w 1963 roku – za drugim podejściem. Uważa, że za pierwszym razem mógł oblać test na skojarzenia, bo pod koniec zaczął żartować.
Michael Collins – pierwsza misja dla NASA
Pierwszą misją w kosmosie Collinsa była Gemini 10, podczas której astronauta odbył spacer w przestrzeni kosmicznej.
Gemini 10 wystartowała 18 lipca 1966 roku. Astronauci mieli spotkać się na orbicie z wystrzeloną chwilę wcześniej Ageną (członem rakiet nośnych) i wykonać manewr dokowania. Dzięki Agenie wznieśli się wyżej i porzucili ją, a później napotkali Agenę z misji Gemini 8.
Collins wyszedł w przestrzeń kosmiczną i zabrał ze starej Ageny pojemnik przeznaczony do zbierania mikrometeorytów. Był pierwszym astronautą, który odwiedził inny statek kosmiczny, znajdujący się już na orbicie.
Później Collins pomagał m.in. w centrum kontroli misji w komunikacji z astronautami podczas misji Apollo 8 – była to pierwsza misja, podczas której astronauci okrążyli Księżyc.
Michael Collins – rola w misji Apollo 11
Apollo 11 to druga i ostatnia misja kosmiczna Michaela Collinsa. Służył w niej jako pilot modułu dowodzenia. W misjach Apollo używano dwóch statków kosmicznych: modułu dowodzenia i modułu księżycowego.
Dwaj astronauci podczas załogowych misji Apollo na Księżyc lądowali na powierzchni naszego satelity w module księżycowym. Trzeci okrążał Księżyc w module dowodzenia. Collins spędził samotnie w kosmosie 21,5 godziny. W tym czasie przeprowadzał testy, obserwował Księżyc i przekazywał dane do centrum kontroli misji na Ziemi.
Nie zawsze jednak miał z nimi łączność – gdy moduł dowodzenia zasłaniał Księżyc (a więc, gdy Collins znajdował się po "niewidocznej z Ziemi stronie Księżyca") nie miał łączności nawet z ludźmi na naszej planecie.
W książce "Niosąc płomień. Podróże astronauty" Collins napisał później:
Daleko mi do czucia się samotnym lub opuszczonym, czuję się częścią tego, co dzieje się na powierzchni Księżyca. Wiem, że byłbym kłamcą lub głupcem, gdybym powiedział, że mam najlepsze z trzech miejsc w Apollo 11, ale mogę powiedzieć z całą pewnością, że jestem doskonale zadowolony z tego, które mam. To przedsięwzięcie zostało zorganizowane dla trzech mężczyzn i uważam, że moje trzecie miejsce jest równie ważne, co każde z pozostałych dwóch.
Nie chcę zaprzeczyć uczuciu samotności. Ono tam jest, wzmocnione faktem, że kontakt radiowy z Ziemią gwałtownie urywa się, gdy tylko znikam za Księżycem. Jestem teraz sam, naprawdę sam i absolutnie odizolowany od wszelkich znanych mi form życia. Jestem sam. Gdyby policzyć, wynik wyniósłby trzy miliardy plus dwa po drugiej stronie Księżyca, a jeden – i plus Bóg wie, co jeszcze – po tej stronie.
Collins odszedł z NASA w 1970 roku. Przez chwilę pracował w biurze spraw publicznych Departamentu Stanu Stanów Zjednoczonych, a później przez osiem lat pełnił funkcję dyrektora amerykańskiego muzeum lotnictwa i przestrzeni kosmicznej. Napisał cztery książki. Popiera wizję lotu ludzi na Marsa.
31 października 2019 roku skończy 89 lat.
https://businessinsider.com.pl/technologie/nauka/misja-kosmiczna-apollo-11-kim-byl-trzeci-astronauta-michael-collins/xs5rj1e
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Apollo 11: Michael Collins returns to launch site on 50th anniversary
16 July 2019
One of the surviving crew members of the first manned mission to the Moon - Apollo 11 - has returned to the site where the mission set off 50 years ago.
Michael Collins, 88, visited Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday. He marked the precise time - 09:32 (13:32 GMT) - when their rocket took off.
Mr Collins had stayed in lunar orbit while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon.
Tuesday's meeting kicked off a series of commemorative events across the US.
Mr Collins was the only original member of the three-person crew at the event - Mr Aldrin, 89, did not attend, while Mr Armstrong, who was their commander, died in 2012.
Speaking at launchpad 39A - where the crew's powerful rocket made history on 16 July 1969 - Mr Collins described how he felt during take-off.
"The shockwave from the rocket power hits you," he told Nasa TV. "Your whole body is shaking. This gives you an entirely... different concept of what power really means."
"You're suspended in the cockpit... as you lift off," he continued. "From then on it's a quieter, more rational, silent ride all the way to the moon.
"We crew felt the weight of the world on our shoulders, we knew that everyone would be looking at us, friend or foe."
He added that he wished his fellow astronauts could have joined him at the site. (...)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49008676
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Apollo 11 pilot Michael Collins disagrees with return to moon, wants straight shot to Mars
By Sam Dorman | Fox News Published 21 July 2019
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File photo - astronaut Michael Collins in his Apollo spacesuit. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/NASA/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)
Michael Collins, the command module pilot on Apollo 11, has said he disagrees with the Trump administration's focus on reaching the moon as a starting point before trying to explore Mars -- arguing that the U.S. should instead direct its efforts toward going directly to the red planet.
"This administration wants to go back to the moon and use the moon as a jumping-off point -- and they've done a lot of research and there's a lot of solid science behind that," he told Fox News' Leland Vittert during an interview that aired Saturday.
"I disagree with that. I believe in JFK Mars express," Collins said, referring to former President John F. Kennedy. The interview, shown on "America's News HQ," came on the 50th anniversary of Collins' trip on the first mission in which a man would walk on the moon.
One of the greatest achievements in human history, the mission delivered on Kennedy’s 1961 promise to land an American on the Moon by the end of that decade.
Collins told Vittert that he didn't think often about the historic event but occasionally remembered the trip while walking at night. "I lead a quiet life and I'll be walking along down my street ... and I sense something over my right shoulder -- and I look up and I see that little silver sliver up there and I think, 'Oh, that's the moon, I've been there!'"
"It takes me by surprise," he added. Collins also pushed back on the idea that the U.S. currently lacks public servants who could serve as an example for younger Americans. "I think the country is in pretty good shape, by in large," he said.
He added that sending people into space "gets youngsters excited." "It's a facet of our civilization. We have many, many cultural affairs and some scientific affairs, and I think kids follow both of them and look up to both aspects of our life here," he said.
Collins' fellow astronaut Stan Love lamented polling that showed young Americans would rather be a YouTube star than an astronaut.
"The thing that I try to do is share my excitement, my enthusiasm for what is still the coolest job in the world," Love said. "I encourage the YouTube fans to maybe get up from the couch now and then and consider engaging with reality.
"It can be very rewarding," Love added with a smile.
Fox News' James Rogers contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/michael-collins-apollo-11-pilot-disagrees-with-return-to-moon-wants-straight-shot-to-mars
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Dear Columbia: Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins says thanks
PUBLISHED JULY 19, 2019 BY MICHAEL COLLINS
This essay is an entry in our "Dear Spacecraft" series, where we ask writers, scientists, and astronomy enthusiasts to share why they feel personally connected to robotic space explorers.
The mission's command module pilot pays tribute to the spacecraft that kept him company on the moon's far side.
DEAR APOLLO 11 Command Module,
May I still call you Columbia? I know you are still traveling, visiting museums now instead of zooming off to strange places, but before you get too complacent, I want to remind you of your humble origin. You were born in 1966 in Downey, California, and there I christened you. Gumdrop, one of your predecessors was called, but I bypassed your awkward, squashed-mushroom geometry and looked to your future, bobbing gracefully on the Pacific swells: indeed Columbia, Gem of the Ocean.
How well I remember nursing you along the assembly line, not an easy process as we labored past midnight through one arduous test after another to validate your credentials. I was proud of you and eager to climb on board, as we made frequent visits to Launch Pad 39A, Gateway to the Moon.
On the Big Day, with seven-and-a-half million pounds of thrust churning away beneath us, I feared for your fragility. But strong you were; you didn’t even pop a circuit breaker. You seemed to like leaving Earth better than sitting on the launch pad and were even smoother in space (well, except for Fuel Cell #3, but I did not consider it a failure, but simply a free spirit not to be regimented like #1 and #2).
Now that I have gotten rid of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and sent them to frolic on the surface 60 miles below, the two of us can finally be alone. Please, another black coffee while I finish this tube of my favorite, the cream-of-chicken soup. And the thermostat, 76˚F. Good, very comfy here.
For whatever reason, perhaps some very slow news days, the press has taken to announcing that here I am, the loneliest man in the whole lonely universe, with an orbit so lonely that my loneliness exceeds that of all lonely souls before me. Ridiculous. How could I be lonely? You have me and I have you (plus the fuel cell), and that view out the window.
I think I’ll take a photograph of what truly does seem lonely, the tiny Earth. But wait. Bill Anders has already taken that picture on Apollo 8, so no point in wasting film on a duplicate.
Instead, I think in preparation for our return to Earth, I should commemorate your contribution, Columbia: a portrait, or some kind of artistic acknowledgement, perhaps a golden sheen on your heat shield, or nymphs dancing, or a moon rock embedded with a star sapphire. Not having any of those, here goes with my trusty old ballpoint pen:
Spacecraft 107, alias Apollo 11, alias “Columbia,” the finest ship to come down the line, God bless her. Michael Collins, CMP
Michael Collins flew in both the Gemini 10 and the Apollo 11 space missions in the 1960s. After retiring from NASA in 1970, he became director of the National Air and Space Museum until 1978, when he became undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. From 1982 to 2006, he served on the National Geographic Society's board of trustees. He currently lives in South Florida.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/07/dear-columbia-apollo-11-astronaut-michael-collins/
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Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Talks to Apollo 11 and Artemis 1 Launch Teams
July 16, 2019
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Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins visits with Apollo 11, Artemis 1 launch team in Firing Room 1 at Kennedy Space Center.
On July 16, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch to the Moon, astronaut Michael Collins speaks to launch team members from Apollo 11 and the current launch team for Artemis 1 in Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“Today was absolutely incredible! What a huge honor to speak to these gentlemen and ladies, who were here doing this work…it will be a day I never forget,” said Lisa Devries, safety console coordinator for Artemis 1. “As a kid growing up, I never in my wildest dreams would think I would be standing here, today, on this historic day, talking with them—knowing everything they did for our Apollo program and our country, and knowing that it’s us next, and that we’re taking the reins and going to be the next program to go on to the Moon.”
Image Credit: NASA
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/apollo-11-astronaut-michael-collins-talks-to-apollo-11-and-artemis-1-launch-teams
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50 Years Ago: Apollo Astronauts Land, Take First Steps on Moon
July 20, 2019
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On July 16, 2019, the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch, astronaut Michael Collins, right, speaks to Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana at Launch Complex 39A. During his visit to the Florida spaceport, Collins discussed the moments leading up to launch at 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1969, and what it was like to be part of the first crew to land on the Moon. Credits: NASA/Frank Michaux
(...) Collins revisited Launch Complex 39A, the site of the Apollo 11 launch, and Firing Room 1 in the Launch Control Center at Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 2019, and reminisced about the mission with Center Director Bob Cabana.
“The Apollo 11 mission to the Moon had many important milestones along the way,” Collins said. “More than anything else, it was the attention to detail our workers and administrator gave to putting the equipment together on the ground, and then testing it in as close to flight conditions as they could.” (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-astronauts-land-take-first-us-steps-on-moon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3631ucuSiE
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Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut - BBC HARDtalk
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https://www.nasa.gov/michael-collins
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https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1387451395461292037
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https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1387447572256657414
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Smutna wiadomość. W 2019 roku udało mi się porozmawiać z wnukiem Michaela Collinsa, który mówił, że Michael nadal jest tym niesamowitym człowiekiem, bez żadnego bycia "wielką gwiazdą". Szkoda, że nie udało mi się wówczas już z samym Michaelem porozmawiać.
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https://www.nasa.gov/content/photos-of-michael-collins
https://twitter.com/NASAArtemis/status/1387449041110413312
https://twitter.com/Lori_Garver/status/1387452097138933763
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https://twitter.com/airspacemag/status/1387455318867599361
https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/1387454494351388672
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/1387454364781092868
https://twitter.com/AstroIronMike/status/1387452663302868998
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Z 24 astronautów programu Apollo, którzy odbyli loty w kierunku Księżyca żyje jeszcze 10-ciu, w tym czterech, którzy wylądowali na powierzchni Srebrnego Globu i spacerowali po nim.
Michael Collins zmarł w dniu pierwotnej daty lądowania Crew-1 i w 20. rocznicę rozpoczęcia lotu pierwszego kosmicznego turysty.
Postać wyjątkowo znacząca.
https://twitter.com/SuperclusterHQ/status/1387443477710053383
A nam już tylko pozostanie czytanie jego wspomnień, które zostały też na język polski przetłumaczone.
AA https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=3608.msg131311#msg131311
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=200.msg134371#msg134371
TSR https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4134.msg146773#msg146773
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https://twitter.com/AstroMCollins/status/1254795323177758721
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https://twitter.com/Astro_127/status/1387465321313968128
https://twitter.com/ingallsimages/status/1387465271825289219
https://twitter.com/CommanderMLA/status/1387463827067969544
https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1387465966855114755
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https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/1387467138357764098
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https://twitter.com/BoeingSpace/status/1387467296239759364
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https://twitter.com/astro_andre/status/1387472085300260865
https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1387469210293526537
https://twitter.com/genejm29/status/1387471435648622605
https://twitter.com/BettinaInclan/status/1387440951786975235
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https://twitter.com/astro_ricky/status/1387473151060283393
https://twitter.com/LiveScience/status/1387460764076703747
https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1387472001229590540
https://twitter.com/AstroVicnet/status/1387472459247628290
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Michael Collins, Astronaut on Apollo 11, Dies at 90
By Laurence Arnold 28 April 2021, 19:00 CEST Corrected 28 April 2021, 20:35 CEST
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Michael Collins during simulator training at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama in 1969. Source: NASA/PhotoQuest/Getty Images
Michael Collins, the U.S. astronaut who in 1969 experienced an extreme of human solitude by orbiting Earth’s moon by himself as his Apollo 11 crew mates were taking man’s first steps on it, has died. He was 90.
He died Wednesday, according to NASA’s website. No cause was given.
As pilot of the command module Columbia, Collins kept a 28-hour vigil in orbit 60-plus miles from the moon’s surface as Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin descended in the lunar module Eagle, landed and explored the moon’s surface.
Although crews aboard two previous Apollo missions also orbited the moon, no one had spent as much time orbiting the lunar surface in isolation as Collins.
“Not since Adam has a human known such solitude as Mike Collins is experiencing during the 47 minutes of each lunar revolution, when he is behind the moon with no one to talk to except his tape recorder,” NASA public affairs officer Douglas K. Ward said on July 21, 1969, the second day of Armstrong and Aldrin’s journey to the moon surface.
At a press conference two weeks before liftoff, Collins had been asked a version of the question he’d face often: How would it feel to get so close to the moon without setting foot on it? “I’m going 99.9% of the way there,” he replied, “and that suits me just fine.”
In his 1974 memoir, “Carrying the Fire,” Collins said he enjoyed his time alone in space.
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Michael Collins in 2019.Photographer: Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images
“I don’t mean to deny a feeling of solitude,” he wrote. “It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon. I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be 3 billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God-knows-what on this side.”
Many Emotions
He said he felt not fear, or loneliness, but “awareness, anticipation, satisfaction, confidence, almost exultation.”
After the mission, Collins received a letter from Charles Lindbergh, the famed aviator who had been the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Lindbergh wrote that while he had followed Armstrong and Aldrin’s walks on the moon with great interest, “it seems to me that you had an experience of in some ways greater profundity. You have experienced an aloneness unknown to man before.”
Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said Wednesday, “Today the nation lost a true pioneer and lifelong advocate for exploration.”
Collins was born on Oct. 31, 1930, in Rome, the son of a U.S. Army general, James Collins, whose job as a State Department military attache gave the family five different homes by the time Collins was 10.
He graduated from St. Albans School in Washington and, in 1952, from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. As a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, he tested jet fighters and other aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Joins NASA
Selected in October 1963 as part of NASA’s third group of astronauts, Collins was the pilot for Gemini X, a three-day mission in July 1966 mission that advanced NASA’s capabilities at rendezvous and docking and included a 90-minute spacewalk.
In 1968 he underwent surgery to repair a herniated cervical disc, forcing his removal from the crew of Apollo 9. Just after Collins was restored to flight status, Armstrong and Deke Slayton, the director of flight crew operations, chose him to man Apollo 11’s command module.
Even in training, “Mike Collins had it tougher” than Armstrong and Aldrin, Slayton wrote in his autobiography. “His training pretty much required him to be alone. If something went wrong, he didn’t have anybody else to blame or complain to.”
Collins sketched out, with help from a National Geographic book on birds, what became the design for Apollo 11’s official mission patch: a bald eagle about to land on the moon, an olive branch in its talons.
Lunar Module
At 3:47 p.m. on July 20, 1969, Collins reported to mission control that the Eagle, carrying Armstrong and Aldrin, had separated and was on its way to the surface. “Everything’s going just swimmingly -- beautiful!” Collins said.
His training included preparations for 18 different types of emergency rendezvous operations to rescue Armstrong and Aldrin, if necessary.
“My secret terror for the last six months has been leaving them on the moon and returning to Earth alone,” he later recalled thinking. “If they fail to rise from the surface, or crash back into it, I am not going to commit suicide; I am coming home, forthwith, but I will be a marked man for life and I know it.”
Collins was spared any such agonizing when Armstrong and Aldrin lifted off successfully from the moon’s surface on July 21. The Eagle, with Armstrong at the helm, and the Columbia, piloted by Collins, reconnected in orbit, though not before a frightening few moments of misalignment that Collins reported as, “all hell broke loose.”
Armstrong died in 2012.
Smithsonian Job
After leaving NASA in January 1970, Collins briefly served as assistant secretary of state for public affairs in Richard Nixon’s administration. He then became director of the National Air and Space Museum and later undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. From 1980 to 1985 he was vice president of LTV Aerospace & Defense Co.
He and his wife, Patricia, had two daughters and a son.
“Heroes abound, and should be revered as such, but don’t count astronauts among them,” Collins said when answering questions in 2009 as NASA marked the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11. “We worked very hard, we did our jobs to near perfection, but that was what we had hired on to do.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-28/michael-collins-who-orbited-moon-during-apollo-11-dies-at-90
https://www.national-geographic.pl/artykul/to-on-pierwszy-raz-wyladowal-na-ksiezycu-michael-collins-zmarl-w-wieku-90-lat
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-literary-legacy-of-michael-collins-the-forgotten-astronaut-of-apollo-11
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/astronaut-michael-collins-apollo-11-pilot-dead-cancer-77370706
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/28/us/nasa-astronaut-michael-collins-obit-scn/index.html
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/remembering-michael-collins
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/28/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-dies-90
https://space24.pl/pojazdy-kosmiczne/odszedl-michael-collins-pilot-modulu-dowodzenia-misji-apollo-11
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Tim Peake @astro_timpeake
An inspiration and a legend. Saddened to hear the passing of Michael Collins, who blazed a path for others to follow.
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Z 24 astronautów programu Apollo, którzy odbyli loty w kierunku Księżyca żyje jeszcze 10-ciu, w tym czterech, którzy wylądowali na powierzchni Srebrnego Globu i spacerowali po nim.
Michael Collins zmarł w dniu pierwotnej daty lądowania Crew-1 i w 20. rocznicę rozpoczęcia lotu pierwszego kosmicznego turysty.
Postać wyjątkowo znacząca.
https://twitter.com/SuperclusterHQ/status/1387443477710053383
A nam już tylko pozostanie czytanie jego wspomnień, które zostały też na język polski przetłumaczone.
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Michael Collins nie żyje
28.04. zmarł w wieku 90 lat były astronauta NASA, uczestnik legendarnej misji Apollo-11, Michael Collins (http://lk.astronautilus.pl/astros/28.htm).
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n210416.htm#08
Michael Collins (1930-2021)
BY KRZYSZTOF KANAWKA ON 29 KWIETNIA 2021
https://kosmonauta.net/2021/04/michael-collins-1930-2021/
Zmarł astronauta Michael Collins z misji Apollo 11
29.04.2021
(...) Astronautą został w trzeciej rekrutacji NASA w październiku 1963 roku. Był pilotem rezerwowym dla misji Gemini 7. W pierwszy lot w kosmos poleciał w ramach trzydniowej misji Gemini 10, która wystartowała 18 lipca 1966 roku. Lot ten ustanowił ówczesny rekord wysokości. Miał wtedy też okazję wykonać spacer kosmiczny (2 godziny i 28 minut poza statkiem). Później służył też w centrum kontroli lotów na stanowisku łączności ze statkiem kosmicznym, gdy wykonywano misję Apollo 8 (na stanowisku tym należało przekazywać informacje pomiędzy centrum kontroli misji, a załogą). Łącznie Collins był w kosmosie przez 266 godzin (misje Gemini 10 i Apollo 11).
Służbę wojskową opuszczał w stopniu generała dywizji. NASA opuścił w 1970 roku i został zastępcą sekretarza stanu do spraw publicznych. W 1971 roku został dyrektorem Narodowego Muzeum Lotnictwa i Kosmosu w Smithsonian Institution, które było wtedy w ramach konstrukcji (zostało otwarte w 1976 roku). W 1980 roku został wiceprezesem firmy LTV Aerospace and Defense Co., gdzie pracował do 1985 roku. Później założył własną firmę, pisząc i prowadząc wykłady dotyczące kosmosu.
Wydał kilka książek: “Carrying the Fire" (1974), "Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places" (1976), "Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space" (1988), "Mission to Mars" (1990).
Przyznano mu doktoraty honorowe sześciu uniwersytetów, a także inne wyróżnienia.(PAP)
https://naukawpolsce.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C87562%2Czmarl-astronauta-michael-collins-z-misji-apollo-11.html
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/28/22408090/apollo-11-astronaut-michael-collins-death-nasa-mourning
https://www.businessinsider.com/apollo-11-astronaut-michael-collins-dead-at-90-2021-4?IR=T
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-who-orbited-moon-dies-at-90/
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/apollo-11-astronaut-mike-collins-passes-away/
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/interview-apollo-11s-michael-collins
Youth In Revolt (2009 Movie) - Scene with Michael Collins
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Astronaut Michael Collins Recalls Landing on the Moon, 50 Years Later
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NASA Remembers Apollo Astronaut Michael Collins
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Remembering Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins | 60 Minutes Australia
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Nick Hague
I remember it vividly...halfway into my mission on the ISS, the emotional high of receiving a message from a personal hero. @AstroMCollins will continue to inspire generations of space explorers, service members, leaders. His legend lives on forever. #Apollo11
https://twitter.com/AstroHague/status/1387580305016512513
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Michael Collins, who piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft Columbia in orbit 60 miles above the moon while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Col. Buzz Aldrin, became the first men to walk on the lunar surface, died on Wednesday at a hospice facility in Naples, Fla. He was 90.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/science/michael-collins-third-man-of-the-moon-landing-dies-at-90.html
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/28/michael-collins-apollo-11-astronaut-dies-90
Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut, dies aged 90
Collins, known as the ‘forgotten astronaut’, kept command module flying while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon
American astronaut Michael Collins, who was part of the Apollo 11 original moon landing crew and kept the command module flying while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon, has died at the age of 90, his family said on Wednesday.
Collins had cancer. He was sometimes known as the “forgotten astronaut” because he didn’t get to land on the moon, while Armstrong and Aldrin became household names.
But his role in the three-man mission in 1969 was just as crucial and his task to keep the module circling and piloting it as his team mates departed from the module in the Eagle lander and then returned safely, was just as crucial, nerve-racking and exciting for the mission as a whole.
“Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins,” the mission log said, referring to the biblical figure.
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30 stycznia gen. Michael Colllins został pochowany w kwaterze 51 na cmentarzu narodowym Arlington.
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Military Funeral Honors for Maj. Gen. Michael Collins
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https://twitter.com/NASAhistory/status/1719353540173336970
On his birthday, we celebrate Michael Collins, who was chosen as part of NASA's Astronaut Group 3. He flew on Gemini X in 1966 and in 1969 was the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11: the first mission to land humans on the Moon. More on Collins: https://go.nasa.gov/3tW3cVa
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1719413847474291059
#OTD in 1930, astronaut Michael Collins was born. Collins was pilot of Gemini 10 and command module pilot of Apollo 11. He also played an important role in the history of our Museum, serving as director when we opened in 1976. More on his legacy: https://s.si.edu/3Sp957k
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https://twitter.com/ron_eisele/status/1784335532991930626
Died aged 90 on 28 April 2021. Apollo 11 Command Module pilot Michael Collins. First man to perform two EVA's (on Gemini 10). Test pilot, astronaut and Major General in the U.S. Air Force Reserves.
31 October 1930. Birth of Michael Collins, USAF test pilot and NASA astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first manned landing on the surface.
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OCT 31: Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins was born #OnThisDay in 1930 in Rome, Italy.
As the CM Pilot for Apollo 11, Collins was characterized as “the most isolated man in history,” spending over 21 hours alone circling the Moon.
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12 razy samotnie okrążył Księżyc.
Dziś już żaden astronauta nie żyje, który tego dokonał.
Today we remember Michael Collins, the "forgotten" astronaut of #Apollo11, who passed away on April 28, 2021, at the age of 90
Rest among the stars, sir — you are not forgotten.
Mike flew on the historic #Apollo11 and #Gemini10 missions
–You always have the world in your window-
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Jan R. Z. @DrPioneer18
Michael signed my Hero Astronauts Space Book...as Well...a great Honor for me...thanks Sir
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Michael Collins' views on Apollo 11, from 60 miles up and 50 years on
July 17, 2019 — Fifty years later, Michael Collins only has vague recollections of where he was when he first saw humans land on the moon.
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071719a-michael-collins-apollo-11-50th-interview.html
https://reel360.com/article/apollo-11-astronaut-michael-collins-rare-2019-interview/
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W 2019 „Hełm Bubble”, noszony przez Michaela Collinsa podczas misji Apollo 11, był prezentowany w Paryżu na wystawie księżycowej.
Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 @GrandPalaisRmn 12:05 AM · Jul 24, 2025
24 juillet 1969
56 ans retour Apollo 11
Le ''Bubble helmet'' que portait Michael Collins lors de la mission Apollo 11 était exposé à Paris il y a six ans pour l'expo Lune au
https://spacemen1969.blogspot.com/2019/04/exposition-la-lune-grand-palais-paris.html
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31.10.2025 minęła 95. rocznica urodzin astronauty.
Post Mission Control October 31, o 12:52 Mission Control
Remembering Michael Collins, born 95 years ago today.
Collins orbited the Moon thirty times, alone, while his crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the lunar surface for the first time in history.
He then dedicated five years of his life to the construction of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, which opened in July 1976 - the 200th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
"Space is the only physical frontier we have left, and I believe its continued exploration will produce real, if unpredictable, benefits to all of us who remain behind on this planet."
Ad Astra, Mike.
https://www.facebook.com/missioncontrolmovie/posts/remembering-michael-collins-born-95-years-ago (https://www.facebook.com/missioncontrolmovie/posts/remembering-michael-collins-born-95-years-ago-todaycollins-orbited-the-moon-thir/1382981880496079/)
ASE at the 36th Planetary Congress in São Paulo @ASE_Astronauts 10:00 PM · Oct 31, 2025
#ASEspotlight: Michael Collins 🌠
On July 18, 1966, ASE member @AstroMCollins enjoyed a breakfast of steak and eggs before the launch of Gemini 10.
Fun fact: He enjoyed playing handball!
Today, we remember Mike on his 95th birthday. ✨
https://twitter.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1984364993395990923
Stephane SEBILE @spacemen1969 12:05 AM · Oct 31, 2025
31 octobre 1930
L'astronaute Michael Collins (1930-2021) aurait eu 95 ans aujourd'hui
https://aviation1-spacemen1969.blogspot.com/2018/03/michael-collins-1930-usa.html
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