Biography:Michael Collins was an American astronaut, best known for flying the Apollo 11 command module during the 1969 landing of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. He was also the fourth person to perform a spacewalk.
Collins was selected as an astronaut in 1963, after which he flew in space twice: first in 1966 on Gemini 10; and then in 1969 on the Apollo 11 mission, with which he became one of 24 people to fly to the moon.
1966-07-18 Gemini 10 launches John Young & Michael Collins
1969-07-20 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the command module