The payloads of Apollo11 were the command mod, the lunar module and the Saturn 5 rocket.

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A payload is any cargo or scientific equipment/experiment carried into space by a Shuttle or Rocket. Primary examples of a payload for a rocket would be a satellite; for the Shuttles, it carried many payloads in its cargo bay, from retrievable satellites to deployable ones, scientific experiments, as well as capture/maintenance equipment.

If you look on my Supervisor Bio page, you can see some of the different payloads in the Shuttle bays that I used to work on.

Reusablility, longer missions, larger crew, and larger payloads.