If you mean on the lunar surface, then it is because he was not one of the two astronauts that descended to the moon. Collins orbited on board the Columbia and there is a picture of him from this time.
Michael Collins orbited the Moon in the Command Module during the Apollo 11 mission.
Michael Collins remained in orbit around the moon while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to its surface during the Apollo 11 mission. Collins circled the moon alone in the command module, eagerly awaiting the return of his fellow astronauts.
Michael Collins remained in the command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Collins orbited the moon and conducted experiments while waiting for Armstrong and Aldrin to return from their moonwalk.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, (the crew of Apollo 11) are alive and well as of November 2010.
Michael Collins orbited the moon alone in the command module Columbia during the historic landing when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon's surface in the lunar module Eagle. Also note that Apollo 2 is not an actual Apollo mission. Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins flew on Apollo 11 (that is an eleven, not a roman numeral II)
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were part of the Apollo 11 mission, which was tasked with landing on the moon and conducting research. Their mission aimed to demonstrate American technological superiority during the Space Race and fulfill President Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.
No, Michael Collins did not walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Collins remained in lunar orbit aboard the Command Module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin conducted the historic moonwalk.
Michael Collins did not land on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. He orbited the moon while astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the historic landing on July 20, 1969. At the time, Collins was 38 years old.
Michael Collins remained in orbit around the Moon in the command module while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface in the lunar module during the Apollo 11 mission.
Apollo 11 was piloted by Neil Armstrong, with Buzz Aldrin as the lunar module pilot and Michael Collins as the command module pilot. Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon during this mission on July 20, 1969.
Michael Collins stayed in the spacecraft while Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin descended to the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. He orbited the Moon alone in the command module, Columbia.
There were only three astronauts on Apollo 11 , all the other astronauts did not go .