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Michael Collins Is the Forgotten Astronaut of Apollo 11. He's Perfectly Fine With That.

Apollo 11's third astronaut orbited the moon, all alone, while his colleagues walked on it.

On July 20, 1969, at 1:46 p.m., Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin separated the Eagle landing craft from the Apollo 11 command module. Michael Collins stayed behind, firing the rockets, moving about two miles away from his colleagues-and 250, ...

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