Crew Neil Armstrong, Commander Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module Pilot Michael Collins, Command Module Pilot Backup Crew James A. Lovell, Commander Fred W. Haise Jr., Lunar Module Pilot William A. Anders, Command Module Pilot Indeed, Rutherfords story makes no mention of hearing anything unusual. (SSPL/Getty Images), Although there are no known photographs of the, Apollo 11 Command Module descending towards splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, all of the crewed Apollo missions ended in similar fashion: with the Command Modules heat shield protecting the astronauts during the early stages of re-entry, and a parachute deploying to slow the final stages of descent to a manageable speed. [CDATA[// >