{"id":460794,"date":"2021-04-28T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460794"},"modified":"2021-04-28T15:20:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:20:38","slug":"forgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dead-at-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/forgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dead-at-90\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Forgotten Astronaut\u2019 Michael Collins Dead At 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fforgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dead-at-90%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460794&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2583.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Michael Collins, the man known as the \u201cforgotten astronaut\u201d of the Apollo 11 mission, has died at the age of 90.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, Collins never walked the moon and stayed behind to pilot the command module as it circled above the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Wednesday, Collins\u2019 family said he passed away peacefully after a long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe regret to share that our beloved father and grandfather passed away today, after a valiant battle with cancer,\u201d the statement said. \u201cHe spent his final days peacefully, with his family by his side. Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility and faced this, his final challenge in the same way. We will miss him terribly. Yet we also know how lucky Mike felt to have lived the life he did. We will honor his wish to mourn, not celebrate, that life. Please join us in fondly remembering his sharp wit, his quiet sense of purpose, and his wise perspective, gained from looking back at Earth from the vantage of space and gazing across calm waters from the deck of his fishing boat.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.6119402985075\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Family Statement on Passing of Astronaut Michael Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6OAw7CzFaz\">pic.twitter.com\/6OAw7CzFaz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Collins (@AstroMCollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstroMCollins\/status\/1387438495040348168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/04\/28\/509599284\/forgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dies\">NPR<\/a>, NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk hailed Collins as a man whose legacy will forever be shaped by his journey to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA mourns the loss of this accomplished pilot and astronaut, a friend of all who seek to push the envelope of human potential,\u201d said Jurczyk. \u201cWhether his work was behind the scenes or on full view, his legacy will always be as one of the leaders who took America\u2019s first steps into the cosmos. And his spirit will go with us as we venture toward farther horizons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/28\/us\/nasa-astronaut-michael-collins-obit-scn\/index.html\">profiled Collins early life<\/a> and his journey to become an astronaut:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"33\">\n<p><em>Collins came from a military family. His father and brother were US Army generals, and his uncle was the Army chief of staff. He decided to \u201csneak off\u201d to the US Air Force instead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 1961, Collins was a student at the US Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California. That year, President John F. Kennedy said that the United States would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade and return him safely to Earth, Collins remembered vividly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Collins and about 80% of his peers were \u201cgung-ho,\u201d he recalled. NASA and the idea of the Mercury and Gemini programs, which set up for the Apollo program, were attractive, and the space program seemed like a promotion. The other 20% would rather fly and test new airplanes for the Air Force rather than getting \u201clocked up in a capsule and shot off like a round of ammunition,\u201d Collins said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Collins was selected as part of the third class of astronauts in 1963. His first mission was Gemini 10. His second was Apollo 11.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The six years between 1963 and 1969 flew by. Collins and his fellow astronauts worked hard, rising early and neglecting breaks on the weekends. They rarely saw their families and flew from coast to coast, visiting facilities where parts of the spacecraft were being manufactured.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Aldrin and Armstrong spent a little under 22 hours on the lunar surface, Collins became famously known as the \u201cloneliest man in humanity\u201d as he orbited the dark side of the moon and lost contact with Mission Control. \u201cThe fact that I was \u2026 out of communications, rather than that being a fear, that was a joy because I got Mission Control to shut up for a little while. Every once in a while,\u201d he told NPR in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Collins, the man known as the \u201cforgotten astronaut\u201d of the Apollo 11 mission, has died at the age of 90.Unlike Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, Collins never walked the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276929,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2583.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Forgotten Astronaut\u2019 Michael Collins Dead At 90","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2583.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Forgotten Astronaut\u2019 Michael Collins Dead At 90","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}