Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to set foot on the moon while Michael Collins orbited above on July 20, 1969.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
Neil Armstrong was born August 5th, 1930. He was command pilot for the Gemini 8 mission in 1966, performing the first successful docking of two vehicles in space. After a mishap, Armstrong saved the mission, proving calm in crisis. In the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong commanded the mission, landed the Eagle spacecraft on the surface of the moon and at 10:56 p.m. on July 20, 1969, became the first man to step foot on the moon.
BUZZ ALDRIN
Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin was a decorated U.S. Air Force jet fighter pilot in the Korean War. He flew on the four-day Gemini 12 mission in 1966 and spent a then-record of 5 hours and 30 minutes spacewalking. He also carried with him a slide rule in case he had to do any calculations while in orbit. Aldrin was the Apollo 11 lunar module pilot and second man to step foot on the moon.
MICHAEL COLLINS
Before working at NASA, Michael Collins was an experimental flight test officer at the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Before Apollo 11 he was backup pilot on the Gemini VII mission, and pilot of the Gemini 10 flight in 1966. His Apollo 11 Role was piloting the command module Columbia, and remaining in lunar orbit while Eagle descended with his two crewmates.