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(FILES) In this NASA file photo taken on August 15, 1969 in Los Angeles, former US President Richard Nixon (C) and Vice-President Spiro Agnew (R) congratulate, US astronauts of the Apollo 11 lunar mission during which two of them, the first one Neil Armstrong and Edward E. Aldrin, walked on the surface of the moon, shown(L-R) Edward E. Aldrin, Mike Collins, Richard Nixon, Neil Armstrong and Spiro Agnew. - American astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to land on the Moon in 1969, died on April 28, 2021 after battling cancer, his family said. "Mike always faced the challenges of life with grace and humility, and faced this, his final challenge, in the same way," Collins' family tweeted on his official Twitter account. (Photo by - / NASA / AFP) (KEYSTONE/NASA/-)