Who commanded Apollo 11, the first crewed mission to land humans on the Moon?

Neil Armstrong commanded Apollo 11, the first crewed mission to land humans on the Moon.

Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969. Its three-person crew consisted of Armstrong, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, and command module pilot Michael Collins. Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the lunar surface in the module Eagle, while Collins remained in lunar orbit aboard Columbia.

The landing occurred on July 20, 1969, in the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility. Armstrong became the first human to step onto the lunar surface, followed by Aldrin. The astronauts spent more than twenty-one hours on the Moon, collected lunar samples, deployed scientific instruments, and photographed the surface.

A common mix-up assigns the mission’s commander role to Aldrin because he was the second person to walk on the Moon, or to Collins because he piloted the orbiting command module. Armstrong held overall command and led the landing operations.