Biographies: Michael Collins - Actor

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An American astronaut, he made two notable space missions: Gemini 10 (1966), when he and his colleague John Young performed an orbital rendezvous between two different spacecraft, and Apollo 11 (1969), when he flew the Columbia spacecraft around the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first human landing on the moon's surface. Before becoming an astronaut, Collins graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1952 and joined the U.S. Air Force, flying F-86 fighter jets at Chambly-Bussières Air Force Base in France. Collins was accepted into the U.S. Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960. He was a major general in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and later became Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Director of the National Air and Space Museum. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2011.

• 27 May 2025
• farah ashraf