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[[File:Apollo 11 CSM photographed from Lunar Module (AS11-37-5445).jpg|thumb|Apollo 11 Command/Service Module ''Columbia'' in lunar orbit, photographed from the Lunar Module ''Eagle'']]
After the crew of Apollo 10 named their spacecraft ''Charlie Brown'' and ''Snoopy'', assistant manager for public affairs Julian Scheer wrote to [[Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center|Manned Spacecraft Center]] director [[George M. Low]] to suggest the Apollo 11 crew be less flippant in naming their craft. During early mission planning, the names ''Snowcone'' and ''Haystack'' were used and put in the news release,<ref name="Snowcone">{{cite web |url=https://history.nasa.gov/ap11fj/pdf/a11-techsum.pdf |title=Technical Information Summary, Apollo-11 (AS-506) Apollo Saturn V Space Vehicle |date=June 25, 1969 |work=[[Marshall Space Flight Center|George C. Marshall Space Flight Center]] |publisher=NASA |location=Huntsvill, AL |page=8 |format=PDF |id=Document ID: 19700011707; Accession Number: 70N21012; Report Number: NASA-TM-X-62812; S&E-ASTR-S-101-69 |accessdate=June 12, 2013}}</ref> but the crew later decided to change them.
The Command Module was named ''[[Columbia (name)|Columbia]]'' after the ''[[Columbiad#In fiction|Columbiad]]'', the giant cannon shell "spacecraft" fired by a giant cannon (also from Florida) in [[Jules Verne]]'s 1865 novel ''[[From the Earth to the Moon]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Farmer |first1=Gene |last2=Hamblin |first2=Dora Jane |last3=Armstrong |first3=Neil |authorlink3=Neil Armstrong |last4=Collins |first4=Michael |last5=Aldrin |first5=Edwin E., Jr. |title=[[First on the Moon (1970 book)|First on the Moon: A Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.]] |others=Epilogue by [[Arthur C. Clarke]] |date=1970 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston |page=39 |isbn=0-7181-0736-5 |lccn=76103950}}</ref> The Lunar Module was named ''Eagle'' for the [[national bird]] of the United States, the [[bald eagle]], which is featured prominently on the mission insignia.
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'''NASA reports'''
*{{cite web|url=https://history.nasa.gov/apsr/apsr.ht. |title=Apollo Program Summary Report |work=NASA History Program Office |publisher=NASA |date=April 1975 |accessdate=September 23, 2006 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929004340/https://history.nasa.gov/apsr/apsr.htm |archivedate=September 29, 2006 |deadurl=
*{{cite book |last=Ertel |first=Ivan |others= Morse, M.L.; Bays, J.K.; Brooks, C.G.; Newkirk, R.W. |title=The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology |url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4009/cover.htm |accessdate=September 23, 2006 |volume=I–IV |date=1969–1978 |publisher=NASA |location=Washington, D.C. |oclc=23818 |lccn=69060008 |id=NASA SP-4009}}
*{{cite web|url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11MIssionReport_1971015566.pdf|title=Apollo 11 Mission Report|format=PDF |date=1971|publisher=NASA}} – 230 pages
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