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	Michael Collins
		Collins graduated from West Point, was a test pilot at Edwards AFB, became an Assistant Secretary of State, was the director of the National Air and Space Museum and attended Harvard Business School.
		Collins is now happily retired after a stellar careers as test pilot, astronaut, diplomat, author and first director of the most-visited museum in the world.
		Michael Collins' watercolors embrace the things he holds most dear: Landscapes of his Florida Everglades home, and places he has visited on family vacations; the fish and wildlife native to Florida, and airplanes and jets he flew as a test pilot.
	www.novaspace.com /ARTIST/MichaelCollins.html (367 words)

	Michael Collins — Infoplease.com
		Collins was the command module pilot for Apollo 11, the 1969 American space mission which landed the first humans on the moon.
		Collins circled the moon in the command module, Columbia, while Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the surface in the lunar module Eagle and then walked on the moon.
		Collins retired from NASA in 1970 and later became the first head of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. His books include the memoir Carrying the Fire (1974), Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places (1976) and Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space (1988).
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/michaelcollins.html (372 words)

	Michael Collins (astronaut) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy on October 31, 1930.
		The turning point for Michael Collins in his decision to become an astronaut was the Mercury Atlas 6 flight of John Glenn on February 20, 1962, and the thought of being able to circle the Earth in 90 minutes.
		The astronauts wives had accompanied them on the trip and Collins and his wife Pat were somewhat forced by NASA and their friends to travel to Metz where they had been married ten years before.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut) (3356 words)

	Collins, Michael / Distinguished Graduate Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Rome, Italy, in 1930, Michael Collins graduated from the Military Academy in 1952 and was commissioned in the Air Force.
		As the 17th American in space, Michael Collins was the first astronaut to walk out twice during a single mission, and in doing so, he helped to demonstrate the growing potential of man to perform the tasks essential to building and maintaining useful satellites in earth orbit.
		Colonel Collins was given the honor of addressing a joint session of Congress, and shortly thereafter he resigned his commission in the Air Force to take up the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.
	www.aog.usma.edu /AOG/AWARDS/DGA/98cit/C-COLLINS.htm (1130 words)

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		Collins was one of the third group of astronauts named by NASA in October 1963.
		Collins' skillful performance in completing two periods of extravehicular activity included the recovery of a micrometeorite detection experiment from the passive Agena.
		Collins performed the final re-docking maneuvers following a successful lunar orbit rendezvous which was initiated by Armstrong and Aldrin from within the Eagle after their ascent from the lunar surface.
	freespace.virgin.net /p.thompson/astronautbios/michaelcollins.html (484 words)

	Michael Collins (Astronaut): Viele Informationen uber Michael Collins (Astronaut) an omega.it
		Michael Collins besuchte die Saint Albans School in Washington, D.C. und studierte anschließend an der Militärakademie West Point, die er 1952 verließ.
		Nach seiner Pilotenausbildung flog er Kampfjets auf verschiedenen Stützpunkten der US-Luftwaffe, unter anderem auch von 1954 bis 1957 in Frankreich.
		Collins war damit der erste Astronaut, der während eines Raumfluges zwei Mal die Kapsel verließ, und der erste, der sich im Weltraum von einem Flugkörper zu einem anderen bewegte.
	www.omega.it /m/mi/michael_collins_astronaut.html (612 words)

	Amazon.com: Reviews for Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys: Books: Michael Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Collins left NASA in 1970 and became the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, continuing to write eloquently of the possibilities of spaceflight.
		Michael Collins has produced what should be the definitive text for any writing class and for any history class dealing with the latter half of the 20th Century.
		Michael Collins was command module pilot of the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon in July 1969.
	www.amazon.com /Carrying-Fire-Astronauts-Michael-Collins/dp/customer-reviews/081541028X (2381 words)

	Collins
		Collins stepped outside and, using a gas gun he moved over to the second Agena and recovered a micrometeorite detection device attached to its side.
		CSD requested the Astronaut Office to provide the type and schedule of training programs in which suit use was anticipated, stating: "This information will be of value in assessing suit support requirements and the type of suit interface information to be gained from astronaut participation in these programs."
		Following a midcourse correction at 4:01 p.m., an 18-minute color television transmission was made, in which the astronauts demonstrated the weightlessness of food and water and showed shots of the earth and the moon.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/collins.htm (2742 words)

	Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: Michael Collins
		Michael Collins walked in space on Gemini 10 and circled the moon as Apollo 11 Command Module pilot while America's first moonwalkers explored the lunar surface.
		Collins was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1963.
		Collins stepped outside and, using a jet gun he moved over to the second Agena and recovered a micro-meteorite detection device attached to its side and returned it to earth for study.
	www.astronautscholarship.org /collins.html (342 words)

	Amazon.ca: Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story: Books: Michael Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Astronaut Michael Collins adds a revised chapter to the extraordinary story of his training and participation in the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 flights.
		The book opens with Collins describing the day of the first moon landing and then he begins to reflect on all the events that led him to be on Apollo 11 that day.
		Through out this book, the author describes his feelings and experiences about being an astronaut, what it's like to fly in space, what he did, what he saw and all the numerous sacrifices he and his family made so that he could be an astronaut.
	www.amazon.ca /Flying-Moon-Astronauts-Michael-Collins/dp/0374423563 (536 words)

	NAHF
		Collins had not only worked extensively in simulators learning the idiosyncrasies of the command module, but he had also been subjected to more than ten Gs in the centrifuges.
		In the remaining minutes, the astronauts gathered lunar soil samples, deployed a laser beam reflector for measuring the distance between the moon and Earth, installed a seismometer to record the intensity of meteor impacts and moonquakes, and collected sub-surface soil samples.
		The third day Collins was advised that, due to weather in the Pacific, their splashdown point had been moved 225 miles eastward.
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	Astronaut Bios
		The most erudite of the astronauts, this is considered by many to be the best of the astronauts' written works.
		Mercury and Gemini astronaut Gordon Cooper recalls his experiences as an astronaut and also shares his thoughts on what unidentified flying objects might really be.
		Cunningham frankly ranks the astronauts of the time and details their extracurricular activities in addition to recounting his work in training and on Apollo 7.
	www.boggsspace.com /astronaut_autobios.htm (3318 words)

	www.irishtribute.com - lost person
		Leader of Irish independence movement Michael Collins was an Irish revolutionary killed during the Irish civil war in 1922.
		Astronaut Michael Collins was an astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo space programs.
		Terrorist victim Michael Collins was an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald killed in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack.
	www.irishtribute.com /tributes/view.adp@d=236920&t=239477.html (175 words)

	MICHAEL COLLINS: THE ASTRONAUT WHO STAYED ALOFT
		Holding a plastic and anatomically correct cow in one hand and a hunk of green cheese representing the lunar surface, I turned to Collins and asked him to explain exactly where he was in that relationship on July 20, 1969, the day of the moon landing.
		Although he was the other astronaut, the one who didn't step on the moon, the mission would have been impossible without Collins' skill and remarkable coolness as he guided the Columbia around the dark reaches of the moon at 3,700 miles per hour.
		Collins said: ``We cannot launch our planetary probes from a springboard of poverty, discrimination, or unrest; but neither can we wait until each and every terrestrial problem is solved.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940720/07200401.htm (828 words)

	Collins, Michael - Books - Magic Bean Dip
		When Michael Collins decides to become a surgeon, he is totally unprepared for the chaotic life of a resident at a major hospital.
		The basic theories she tackles are: Collins was hit from behind by IRA members headed to Kerry, Collins was hit by a member of his own party by a close range bullet from the armoured car, Collins was hit by a ricocheted bullet, and Collins was hit by a bullet fired by an IRA member.
		She dispels the theories that Collins was shot by a bullet from a Mauser pistol and that Collins was killed by a ricocheted bullet.
	v1.magicbeandip.com /store/browse_books_2379 (2839 words)

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		EST on July 20, 1969, the Lunar Module¾with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin¾landed on the lunar surface while Michael Collins orbited overhead in the Apollo command module.
		The Apollo spacecraft was nearly identical to the one that orbited the Moon and later carried astronauts to Skylab, while the Soyuz craft was the primary Soviet vehicle used for cosmonaut flight since its introduction in 1967.
		The flight was more a symbol of the lessening of tensions between the two superpowers than a significant scientific endeavor, a sharp contrast with the competition for international prestige that had fueled much of the space activities of both nations since the late 1950s.
	history.nasa.gov /Timeline/100flt.html (2329 words)

	Project Apollo: Astronaut Biographies
		Armstrong transferred to astronaut status in 1962, one of nine NASA astronauts in the second class to be chosen.
		Michael Collins—Michael Collins (1930-) was born on October 30, 1930, in Rome, Italy.
		Collins has completed two spaceflights, logging 266 hours in space, of which 1 hour and 27 minutes was spent in EVA.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/ap11ann/astrobios.htm (3083 words)

	Michael Collins (astronaut) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And spare a thought for poor Michael Collins who didn't even get to watch...
		Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930) was an astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo space programs.
		On this mission Collins was the Command Module pilot who orbited the Moon while his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed and walked on the lunar surface.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/m/mi/michael_collins__astronaut_.html (151 words)

	Michael Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Collins was an American astronaut who was born on October 31, 1930, in Italy.
		Before he became an astronaut, Collins was an Air Force pilot.
		Collins left NASA in 1970 to become Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/astronauts/collins.html&edu=high (168 words)

	Collins, Michael (1930-)
		American astronaut, born in Rome, Italy, who walked in space during the Gemini 10 mission and circled the Moon as the Apollo 11 Command Module pilot.
		Collins received a B.S. degree from West Point in 1952, then entered the Air Force as an experimental flight test officer at Edwards Air Force Base before being selected as an astronaut in 1963.
		Collins has written several books, including Carrying the Fire, Liftoff, and Space Machine, which blend good humor with incisive journalism.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/Collins_Michael.html (249 words)

	Zoom Astronomy Glossary: C
		Collins piloted NASA's 3-day Gemini 10 Mission, which was launched on July 18, 1966; this mission successfully rendezvoused and docked with a separate Agena target vehicle, and Collins walked in space twice during this mission.
		Collins piloted the Command Module pilot of Apollo 11 (the mission that landed Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr.
		A coma is the roughly spherical blob of gas that surrounds the nucleus of a comet.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/astronomy/glossary/indexc.shtml (5832 words)

	SPACE.com -- Michael Collins- Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot
		Michael Collins was born on October 30, 1930, in Rome, Italy.
		Collins served as a fighter pilot and an experimental test pilot at the Air Force Flight Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
		Collins has written about his experiences in the space program in several books, including "Carrying the Fire" and a children's book, "Flying to the Moon and other Strange Places." In 1988, he wrote "Liftoff: the Story of Americas Adventure in Space." Today he is an aerospace consultant and writer.
	www.space.com /news/a11_collinsbio.html (458 words)

	Michael Collins (Astronaut) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Astronaut Collins, director of KSC will retire: The NASA mainstays announce they are leaving the space agency.
		Byline: Michael Cabbage CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ Two long-time NASA luminaries, astronaut Eileen Collins and Kennedy Space Center directorthat the mission would be her last.
		Collins, 49, leaves behind a resume glitteringwoman selected as a pilot by the astronaut corps.
	enzyklopadie.cc /Michael_Collins_(Astronaut) (913 words)

	WebWire® \| NASA Honors Apollo Astronaut Michael Collins
		Collins’ award will be displayed at the museum.
		Collins was the pilot for the Gemini 10 mission in July 1996.
		He remained in lunar orbit as the command module pilot for Apollo 11 in July 1969, while crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to land on the moon’s surface during that historic mission.
	www.webwire.com /ViewPressRel.asp?aId=8192 (134 words)

	CBSNews.com
		Born in 1930, Collins graduated from West Point Military Academy and went on to become a test pilot in the Air Force.
		He was chosen for NASA's third group of astronauts in 1963 and piloted the Gemini 10 mission three years later.
		He went to the moon as the command module pilot on the historic Apollo 11 mission and stayed in orbit around the moon while his crewmates explored the lunar surface.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/space/astronauts/whois_collins.html (96 words)

	Astronaut Bio: Michael Collins (Major General, USAF, Retired) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Collins has received numerous decorations and awards, including the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 1969, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, and the Harmon International Trophy.
		Collins has completed two space flights, logging 266 hours in space, of which 1 hour and 27 minutes were spent in EVA.
		In April 1978, Collins became Undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
	www.jsc.nasa.gov /er/seh/collinsm.htm (424 words)

	Michael Collins
		Mike Collins was the third man in the historic Armstrong and Aldrin Apollo 11 mission that put the first men on the moon on July 20, 1969.
		As pilot of the command module Collins circled like a in lunar orbit until Armstrong and Aldrin returned in the lunar launch craft.
		Collins was also the first man to space walk from one spacecraft to another (Gemini 10, July 1966).
	www.nndb.com /people/348/000023279 (160 words)

	Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins & Buzz Aldrin talk about UFOs
		During the broadcast of this historic event on the Canadian network coverage, they were discussing at some point a light which kept appearing while the astronauts were actually on the surface.
		One explanation for the halo's seen around or near some of the Appollo astronauts was that it was gases being vented from their backpacks.
		In his book "Carrying The Fire" astronaut Michael Collins the command module pilot makes no mention of this incident.
	www.ronrecord.com /astronauts/armstrong-collins-aldrin.html (1512 words)

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