Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, who piloted the ship from which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left to make their historic first steps on the moon in 1969, has died of cancer, his family says. He was 90.
Mr Collins was part of the three-man Apollo 11 crew that effectively ended the space race between the United States and Russia and fulfilled President John F Kennedy's challenge to reach the moon by the end of the 1960s.
Though he travelled some 383,000 kilometres to the moon and came within 111 kilometres, Collins never set foot on the lunar surface like his crew-mates Aldrin and Armstrong, who died in 2012. None of the men flew in space after the Apollo 11 mission.
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