Pioneering Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins passes away at 90


A pivotal figure of the legendary Apollo 11 moon landing has died. Michael Collins, the Apollo 11 command pilot who orbited the moon so that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Armstrong could famously walk the lunar surface in July 1969, passed away at 90, his family confirmed on social media. The calm, even-keeled, and razor-sharp former Houstonian lost his fight to cancer, per his family, who released this statement. > We regret to share that…

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