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Michael Collins 1930-2021

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Michael Collins served as a fighter and test pilot with the US Air Force before joining Nasa's Gemini space programme. He is best known for being the astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module, in the US spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon in 1969.

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