Celebrating astronaut Michael Collins ’48
Archivist Mark Wilkerson was excited to conduct a phone interview with astronaut Michael Collins ’48, fifty years after Collins flew to the moon aboard Apollo 11. The full report will appear in the next Bulletin, mailing to homes later this month. In the meantime, enjoy a pdf of the article and additional photos of Michael Collins’s career at STA and beyond!
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Michael Collins’s 1963 official NASA portrait. -
Michael Collins ’48 (seated at right) in his first year at St. Albans. -
Michael Collins’s 1946 St. Albans football portrait. -
Michael Collins (top right) with the other senior members of the 1948 St. Albans baseball team. -
Michael Collins (second from right in the front) with the other members of the Cathedral Servers, a group selected by the Vestry to serve as acolytes at early morning Cathedral services. -
Michael Collins wrestling during his form V year. -
Michael Collins (back right) with the eight other elected prefects in the class of 1948. -
Michael Collins’ senior page in the 1948 St. Albans yearbook. -
Michael Collins (far left) in 1964, studying geology as part of a 240-hour course on the basics of spaceflight. -
Michael Collins (right) with John Young, the mission commander of Collins’s first spaceflight on the Gemini X. On the left is a model of the Gemini spacecraft. -
Michael Collins (right) with John Young shortly after the Gemini X landing. -
Michael Collins with Canon Charles Martin in the Trophy Room in 1966. -
An American flag that accompanied Collins on Gemini X now hangs in the Common Room. -
Michael Collins describes his experience during the Gemini 10 mission to over 1,000 adults in the St. Albans community at a dinner in 1966. -
The school prayer card Michael Collins ’48 carried aboard Apollo 11 and then gave to the school. It now hangs in the Lane-Johnston Building. -
Michael Collins pictured in his spacesuit months before the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the moon.
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Located in Washington D.C., St. Albans School is a private, all boys day and boarding school. For more than a century, St. Albans has offered a distinctive educational experience for young men in grades 4 through 12. While our students reach exceptional academic goals and exhibit first-rate athletic and artistic achievements, as an Episcopal school we place equal emphasis upon moral and spiritual education.