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      m. 1948 - 2018

  2. Collins met his future wife, Patricia Mary Finnegan from Boston, Massachusetts, in an officers' mess. A graduate of Emmanuel College, where she majored in English, she was a social worker, dealing mainly with single mothers. To see more of the world, she was working for the Air Force service club.

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    A member of NASA's third group of astronauts selected in 1963, Collins path to joining the first moon landing began with a three-day flight in Earth orbit. Assigned as the pilot aboard Gemini 10, Collins launched with John Young in July 1966 on a mission that demonstrated rendezvous and docking with two rocket stages. Collins performed two spacewal...

    Michael Collinswas born on Oct. 30, 1930, in Rome, Italy, where his father, a career U.S. Army officer, was stationed. After moves from Oklahoma to New York to Maryland to Ohio to Puerto Rico to Texas to Virginia, Collins attended St. Albans preparatory school in Washington, D.C. He then received an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West ...

    Recruited by the Nixon Administration, Collins accepted a position as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, but found he did not enjoy the job and left after a year to become the first director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum. Collins advocated for its funding and oversaw the museum being built once its bud...

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  4. Apr 29, 2021 · Patricia M. Finnegan was the wife of Michael Collins, the late former NASA astronaut. She was an articulate writer who eloquently captured the behind-the-scenes concerns and challenges wives of astronauts faced during the Gemini and Apollo missions.

  5. May 3, 2014 · Patricia Collins, 83; wrote about being an astronaut’s wife - The Boston Globe. By Bryan Marquard Globe staff,May 4, 2014, 12:05 a.m. Patricia Collins with a photo of Neil Armstrong and...

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  6. Apr 28, 2021 · Collins met his future wife, Patricia Finnegan, the daughter of a Massachusetts state senator, at an Air Force club. They married in 1957 and had three children. While serving as a test pilot...

  7. Apr 29, 2021 · Collins is survived by his three children - Kate, Michael Jr., and Ann. His wife Patricia M. Finnegan had passed away in 2014. Collins had been battling cancer for the past few years says a statement released by his family, "He spent his final days peacefully, with his family by his side.

  8. Apr 14, 2013 · Marriage: Patricia M. (Finnegan) Collins (April 28, 1957-April 19, 2014, her death) Children: Michael, Ann and Kathleen. Education: United States Military Academy at West Point, B.S., 1952...