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Michael Collins
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Michael Collins (1930–2021) was a U.S. Air Force officer and NASA astronaut who served as Command Module Pilot on the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, remaining in lunar orbit while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the Moon's surface. He appears in the archive in connection with three anomalous observations made during the outbound and return legs of the mission, documented in Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing: Three Anomalous Observations Outbound and Return, 1969.