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Apollo 11 InformationApollo 11 InformationThe Apollo 11 crew were:

 - Neil Armstrong (Commander),

 - Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin (Lunar Module Pilot)

and  - Michael Collins

(Command Module Pilot).

The back up crew were:

 - James Lovell (Backup Commander),

 - Fred Haise (Backup Lunar Module Pilot)

and  - William A. Anders (Backup Command

Module Pilot).

The crew for Apollo 11 was announced in January 1969. 29 astronauts trained for the Apollo missions to the Moon. Neil Armstrong was chosen as the Commander and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot and Michael Collins was the Command Module Pilot.

First Moon WalkSix hours after landing, Neil Armstrong

stepped off the Eagle Lunar Module onto the surface of the Moon at 10:56pm EDT on July

20. Neil Armstrong made the first human

footprint on the moon. Neil Armstrong said, "One small step for man, one giant leap for

mankind".

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Michael CollinsMichael Collins

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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.[2]After the United States entered World War II, the family

moved to Washington, D.C.

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Neil Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, the son of Stephen Koenig Armstrong and Viola Louise Engel.[3][4] He had two younger siblings, June and Dean. He is of Scots-Irish and German descent. Stephen Armstrong worked for the Ohio government, and the family moved around the state repeatedly in the 15 years following Armstrong's birth, living in 20 different towns.