Editing Apollo 11 (section)

=== Backup crew ===

{{Spaceflight crew
|terminology  = Astronaut
|position1    = Commander
|crew1_up     = [[Jim Lovell|James A. Lovell Jr.]]
|position2    = Command Module Pilot
|crew2_up     = [[William Anders|William A. Anders]]
|position3    = Lunar Module Pilot
|crew3_up     = [[Fred Haise|Fred W. Haise Jr.]]
}}

The backup crew consisted of Lovell as Commander, [[William Anders]] as CMP, and Haise as LMP. Anders had flown with Lovell on Apollo&nbsp;8.{{sfn|Orloff|2000|p=90}} In early 1969, Anders accepted a job with the [[National Space Council|National Aeronautics and Space Council]] effective August 1969, and announced he would retire as an astronaut at that time. [[Ken Mattingly]] was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup CMP in case Apollo 11 was delayed past its intended July launch date, at which point Anders would be unavailable.{{sfn|Slayton|Cassutt|1994|p=237}}

By the normal crew rotation in place during Apollo, Lovell, Mattingly, and Haise were scheduled to fly on [[Apollo 14]], but the three of them were bumped to [[Apollo 13]]: there was a crew issue for Apollo 13 as none of them except [[Edgar Mitchell]] flew in space again. [[George Mueller (NASA)|George Mueller]] rejected the crew and this was the first time an Apollo crew was rejected. To give [[Alan Shepard]] more training time, Lovell's crew were bumped to Apollo 13. Mattingly would later be replaced by [[Jack Swigert]] as CMP on Apollo 13.{{sfn|Slayton|Cassutt|1994|p=237}}