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What role did Michael Collins have during the Apollo 11 landing?
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(Left) Near side of Earth's Moon, photographed by the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter. (Right) Far side of the Moon with some of the near side visible (upper right), photographed by the Apollo 16 spacecraft.
During the Apollo 11 mission, Michael Collins served as the command module pilot. While his crewmates, Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., descended to the lunar surface in the lunar module Eagle, Collins remained in the command module Columbia.
He orbited the Moon alone at an altitude of 97–121 km (60–75 miles) until Armstrong and Aldrin rejoined him on July 21, 1969, to begin their return to Earth.1