Smithsonian Institution people

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: Michael Collins, James Smithson, Ananda Coomaraswamy, John Wesley Powell, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, Matthew Stirling, John Berry, James Renwick, Jr., Olga F. Linares, George Switzer, William Temple Hornaday, Frank Hamilton Cushing, William Henry Holmes, S. O. Y. Keita, Charles Lang Freer, John Napier, Adrienne L. Kaeppler, Mary J. Rathbun, Randall L. Gibson, George Brown Goode, Benjamin Butterworth, Betty Jane Belanus, Brent Glass, Frederick Bayer, Charles Coffin Jewett, Geoffrey Thomas, J. Walter Fewkes, Paul E. Ceruzzi, Jane MacLaren Walsh, Nancy Knowlton, Brian Harold Mason, James W. Patterson, Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., Frederick Webb Hodge, Cyrus Adler, Takaharu Mitsui, George Amos Dorsey, George Townsend Turner, W. Wilson Hulme II, Curtis Peebles, Howard I. Chapelle, Martin Moynihan, Henry F. Hollis, William C. Sturtevant, Ralph Rinzler, Peter P. McCann, William Marcellus Howard, Leland Ossian Howard, Paul Bartsch, Franklin Richard Bruns Jr., Arthur L. Herman, Robert Laurenson Dashiell Davidson, Helen Frances James, Catherine Lemmon Manning, Charles Adler, Jr., Joseph Britton Leavy, George Perkins Merrill, Charles Rau, Richard Kurin, Dolores Piperno, Albert Charles Smith, Otis Tufton Mason, Walter Hough, Terry Erwin, Virginia Mecklenburg, Harry K. Harring, Charles M. Manly. Excerpt: Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930 in Rome, Italy) is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was as the command module pilot for Apollo 11. While he orbited the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first manned landing on the lunar surface. He is one of only 24 humans to have flown to the Moon. Prior to becoming an astronaut, he had attended the United States Military Academy, and from there he joined the United States Air Force and flew F-86s at Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, France. He was accepted to the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960. He unsuccessfully applied for the second astronaut group but was accepted for the third group. After retiring from NASA in 1970 he took a job in the Department of State as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. A year later he became the director of the National Air and Space Museum. He held this position until 1978 when he stepped down to become undersecretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1980 he took the job as Vice President of LTV Aerospace. He resigned in 1985 to start his own business. He is married to Patricia, and they have three children: Kate, Ann, and Michael, Jr. Michael Collins was born in Rome, Italy on October 31, 1930, to United States Army Major General James Lawton Collins, who would serve in the army for 38 years. For the first 17 years of his life, Michael Collins would call Rome, Oklahoma, Governors Island, Puerto Rico and Alexandria, Virginia home. He took his first ride in a plane in Puerto Rico aboard a Grumman Widgeon. His father would often tell of how his own first plane ride had been in 1911 with Frank Lahm in the Philippines. After the United States entere