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Michael Collins

*1930 US
Spoken Word
A.k.a. Michael Collins

Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930), Major General, USAF, Ret., is an American former astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew into space twice. His first spaceflight was on Gemini 10, in which he and Command Pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was as the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11. While he stayed in orbit around the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left in the Lunar Module to make the first manned landing on its surface. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.

     
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Piano Concerto in F sharp Minor, Op. 10: II. Adagio ma non troppo on von Henselt/Bronsart von Schellendorff - Piano Concertos by Paul Wee, Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Michael Collins
Suite from "The Victorian Kitchen Garden": V. Summer. Flowing on The Lyrical Clarinet by Michael Collins & Michael McHale
Liebesleid on The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3 by Michael Collins & Michael McHale
Solo de concours, Op. 10 on The Virtuoso Clarinet, Vol. 2 by Michael Collins & Michael McHale
Suite from "The Victorian Kitchen Garden": I. Prelude. Andante pastorale on The Lyrical Clarinet by Michael Collins & Michael McHale
Concerto in E-Flat Major, Op. 1: II. Adagio on Crusell: Clarinet Concertos by Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Michael Collins & Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Träumerei, Op. 15 No. 7 on The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3 by Michael Collins & Michael McHale
La Fille aux cheveux de lin, L. 117, CD. 125 on The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3 by Michael Collins & Michael McHale
Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K 338: I. Allegro vivace on W. A. Mozart: Symphonies 34, 35 and 36 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Philharmonia Orchestra & Michael Collins
Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 16: I. Allegro patetico - Religioso - Reprise on von Henselt/Bronsart von Schellendorff - Piano Concertos by Paul Wee, Swedish Chamber Orchestra & Michael Collins

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Title Artist Year Type
The Loneliest JourneyTerry Dear, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin AldrinAlbum
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