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(1930-2021) Astronaut, author. Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy, and died in Naples, Florida. He was a graduate of West Point and wrote a memoir, “Carrying the Fire.”

Full Name

Michael Collins

Locations

Orange

Author's Timeline

1930

BIRTH

Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy, on October 31, 1930.

1952

OTHER

Colonel Collins graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in military science from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1952.

1974

LITWORK

Carrying the Fire
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374119171 / 978-0374119171
Memoir.

1976

LITWORK

Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
0374324123 / 978-0374324124
Nonfiction.

1988

LITWORK

Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space
Grove Press
0802110118 / 978-0802110114
Nonfiction.

1990

LITWORK

Mission to Mars
Grove Press
0802111602 / 978-0802111609
Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story
San Val
0613126688 / 978-0613126687
Children's nonfiction.

2021

DEATH

Michael Collins died at a hospice facility in Naples, Florida, on April 28, 2021.

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