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Michael Collins

Collins was born in Rome, Italy in the year 1930. He flew into space twice, once in the Gemini 10 and Apollo 11. First, he attended the United States Military Academy before joining the United States Air Force and after that, was accepted to the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School. After he retired from NASA, he took the job of Department of State as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and after that, became the director for the National Air and Space Museum. In 1980, he resigned to accept the undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institute.

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