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- NAME: Michael Collins
- OCCUPATION: Astronaut
- BIRTH DATE: October 31, 1930 (Age: 82)
- EDUCATION: West Point, St. Albans School
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Rome, Italy
- Full Name: Michael Collins
- ZODIAC SIGN: Scorpio
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Michael Collins is a former astronaut who was part of the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 missions, the latter of which included the first lunar landing in history.
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Neil Armstrong - The 40th Anniversary of the Walk on the Moon (4:31)
Neil Armstrong - The 40th Anniversary of the Walk on the Moon
40 years after his first walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong was honored, along with fellow Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, by President Barack Obama at the White House. (Video courtesy of the White House)
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Play NowMichael Collins. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 07:02, May 21, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/michael-collins-9253724.
Michael Collins. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/michael-collins-9253724 [Accessed 21 May 2013].
"Michael Collins." 2013. The Biography Channel website. May 21 2013, 07:02 http://www.biography.com/people/michael-collins-9253724.
"Michael Collins," The Biography Channel website, 2013, http://www.biography.com/people/michael-collins-9253724 [accessed May 21, 2013].
"Michael Collins," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/michael-collins-9253724 (accessed May 21, 2013).
Michael Collins [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 May 21] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/michael-collins-9253724.
Michael Collins, http://www.biography.com/people/michael-collins-9253724 (last visited May 21, 2013).
Michael Collins. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/michael-collins-9253724. Accessed May 21, 2013.
Collins and his wife, Patricia Finnegan, have three children. The couple lives in both Marco Island, Florida, and Avon, North Carolina.
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