Florida: Astronaut Michael Collins, who was part of the Apollo 11 Mission, said goodbye to the world. Collins, who took Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon, died of cancer. He took his final year in Naples, Florida on Wednesday at the age of 90. The special thing is that it was the Apollo 11 mission, which ended the race between the US and Russia over space.
Collins, who was part of the three-member team of the Apollo 11 mission, is no more. The special thing is that Collins, who took Armstrong and Aldrin to the moon, did not step on the surface. During the time Armstrong and Aldrin were setting their feet on the moon’s surface, Collins was orbiting the moon. The statement issued by his family said, ‘Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility and, likewise, faced his ultimate challenge.’
In a statement issued by US President Joe Biden, “Michael Collins has helped to write and tell our country’s achievements in space.” He informed that Collins had ‘demanded that everyone call him only Mike.’ Cullins operated the command module of the 8-day Apollo mission. When Armstrong and Aldrin were on the lunar surface, Collins was alone in Columbia’s command module.
This question was asked many times in his life whether he has the grief of not landing on the moon. Actually, Collins was the command module pilot expert. The surviving astronaut of Apollo 11 mission, Aldrin, shared a laughing picture of the three companions on Wednesday. He wrote, ‘Dear Mike, wherever you have been or will be, you will always have a fire to take us cleverly to new heights and future.’
