Michael Collins obituary

Astronaut and first man to orbit the moon alone, inside Apollo 11, during the historic 1969 landingOn 20 July 1969, Michael Collins, who has died aged 90, became the most solitary human in the universe – even if he derided that categorisation as “phony philosophy”. He was the first man to orbit the moon alone, inside Apollo 11’s command module Columbia, and out of touch with ground control for 48 minutes on each orbit. Meanwhile, and more famously, Neil Armstrong and Buzz