In the interim, graduates of the Military Academy were eligible for Air Force commissions.
The Air Force Academy, still under construction, would not graduate its first class for several years. Lawton Collins (1896–1987), was the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Ĭollins' decision to join the United States Air Force (USAF) was motivated by both the wonder of what the next fifty years might bring in aeronautics, and to avoid accusations of nepotism had he joined the Army-where his brother was already a colonel, his father had reached the rank of major general and his uncle, General J. He graduated on June 3, 1952, with a Bachelor of Science degree in military science, finishing 185th of 527 cadets in the class, which included future fellow astronaut Ed White. He received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, from which his father and his older brother had graduated in 19 respectively. His mother wanted him to enter the diplomatic service, but he decided to follow his father, two uncles, brother, and cousin into the armed services. Īfter the United States entered World War II, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where Collins attended St. He studied for two years in the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He wanted to fly again, but since World War II started soon after, he was unable. He took his first plane ride in Puerto Rico aboard a Grumman Widgeon the pilot allowed him to fly it for a portion of the flight. įor the first 17 years of his life, Collins lived in many places as the Army posted his father to different locations: Rome Oklahoma Governors Island, New York Fort Hoyle (near Baltimore, Maryland) Fort Hayes (near Columbus, Ohio) Puerto Rico San Antonio, Texas and Alexandria, Virginia. Collins' mother was of British descent, and his father's family hailed from Ireland. and two older sisters, Virginia and Agnes. Collins had an older brother, James Lawton Collins Jr. military attaché there from 1928 to 1932, and Virginia C. He was the second son of James Lawton Collins, a career U.S. Along with his Apollo 11 crewmates, Collins was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2011.Įarly life 1969 commemorative plaque in via Tevere, Rome, marking Collins' birthplaceĬollins was born on October 31, 1930, in Rome, Italy. He resigned in 1985 to start his own consulting firm. In 1980, he took a job as vice president of LTV Aerospace. A year later, he became the director of the National Air and Space Museum, and held this position until 1978, when he stepped down to become undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He was the fourth person (and third American) to perform a spacewalk, the first person to have performed more than one spacewalk, and, after Young, who flew the command module on Apollo 10, the second person to orbit the Moon alone.Īfter retiring from NASA in 1970, Collins took a job in the Department of State as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. On the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he became one of 24 people to fly to the Moon, which he orbited thirty times. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10 in 1966, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed orbital rendezvous with two spacecraft and undertook two extravehicular activities (EVAs, also known as spacewalks).
Selected as part of NASA's third group of 14 astronauts in 1963, Collins flew in space twice. Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960, also graduating from the Aerospace Research Pilot School (Class III). He joined the United States Air Force, and flew F-86 Sabre fighters at Chambley-Bussières Air Base, France. He followed his father, brother, uncle, and cousin into the military. military attaché, Collins graduated in the Class of 1952 from the United States Military Academy. Air Force Reserve.īorn in Rome, Italy, where his father was serving as the U.S. He was also a test pilot and major general in the U.S. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Michael Collins (Octo– April 28, 2021) was an American astronaut who flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon in 1969 while his crewmates, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, made the first crewed landing on the surface. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file.
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