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Michael Collins piloted the Command Module, in orbit around the Moon, while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the Lunar Lander down to the surface.

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The astronaut who circled the moon in Apollo 11 while his colleagues landed on its surface was Michael Collins. He remained in the command module in lunar orbit as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended in the lunar module to make the historic first manned landing on the moon.

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USA Apollo 8 (with 3 men Mr. Frank Borman, Jim Lowell, and John Anders) circled in the Moon (and did not land) in December 1968. USA Apollo 11 with Neil Armstrong (first to walk on the Moon), Buzz Aldrin (2nd to walk on the Moon), and Michael Collins (who circled the Moon in the command module), went there in July 1969.


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