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Michael Collins
 
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Michael Collins |
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Born on: |
30 Oct 1930 |
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Join NASA in: |
17 Oct 1963 |
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Current status: |
Retired 1 Jan 1970 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Gemini 10 |
Pilot |
18.07. - 21.07.1966 |
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Apollo 11 |
Cmdr |
16.07. - 24.07.1969 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
Michael Collins was one of
the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October
1963. He served as backup pilot for the Gemini VII mission.
As pilot on the 3-day Gemini X mission, launched July 18,
1966, Collins shared with command pilot John Young in the
accomplishments of that record-setting flight. These
accomplishments included a successful rendezvous and
docking with a separately launched Agena target vehicle
and, using the power of the Agena, maneuvering the Gemini
spacecraft into another orbit for a rendezvous with a
second, passive Agena. Collins' skillful performance in
completing two periods of extravehicular activity included
the recovery of a micrometeorite detection experiment from
the passive Agena. Gemini X attained an apogee of
approximately 475 statute miles and traveled a distance of
1,275,091 statute miles--after which splashdown occurred
in the West Atlantic, 529 miles east of Cape Kennedy. The
spacecraft landed 2.6 miles from the USS GUADALCANAL and
became the second spacecraft in the Gemini program to land
within eye and camera range of the prime recovery ship.
Collins served as command module pilot on Apollo 11, July
16-24, 1969--the first lunar landing mission. He remained
aboard the command module , Columbia, on station in lunar
orbit while Neil Armstrong, spacecraft commander, and
Edwin Aldrin, lunar module pilot, descended to the lunar
surface in their lunar module Eagle. Collins performed the
final re-docking maneuvers following a successful lunar
orbit rendezvous which was initiated by Armstrong and
Aldrin from within the Eagle after their ascent from the
lunar surface. Among the accomplishments of the Apollo 11
mission were collection of lunar surface samples for
return to earth, deployment of lunar surface experiments,
and an extensive evaluation of the life supporting
extravehicular mobility unit worn by astronauts.
Collins completed two space flights, logging 266 hours in
space--of which 1 hour and 27 minutes was spent in EVA.
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