Michael Collins - one of the three crew members of the first manned mission to land on the Moon, Apollo 11 in 1969 - has died aged 90, his family say.
He died on Wednesday 28 April 2021 after a valiant battle with cancer.
Collins stayed in lunar orbit as his colleagues Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon.
Aldrin, 91, was the only surviving member of the mission.
On 16 July 2019, Collins visited Florida's Kennedy Space Center - the site where the mission had set off exactly 50 years earlier. Speaking at launchpad 39A - where the crew's rocket began the historic mission - he described how he felt during take-off.
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