The rocket wasn't called "Apollo". The specific NASA project to put a man on the moon was called "The Apollo Project" - Armstrong did not name it, it was called that before he got involved with it. He did have the privilege of naming the lunar landing vehicle, though, which was called "Eagle".
apollo 11
name of Neil Armstrongs rocket used for moon landing
The Apollo missions launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Neil Armstrong's spacecraft was called Apollo 11. He was the commander of the mission that successfully landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
Actually, the rocket that carried Neil Armstrong to the moon was the Saturn V rocket, part of NASA's Apollo program. The Apollo program aimed to land astronauts on the moon and bring them safely back to Earth. The Apollo 11 mission, commanded by Neil Armstrong, achieved this historic feat on July 20, 1969.
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It was the Saturn 5 rocket, the spacecraft was called the Apollo mission.
I assume you're referring to the lunar module "Eagle"
Apollo 11
All Apollo missions to the moon were launched by Saturn 5 rockets. However, the last portion of the rocket was jettisoned shortly after trans-lunar insertion, so the majority of the rip was made using the Apollo Spacecraft, which had rockets but was not itself a rocket.
The rocket that powered Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins' spacecraft toward the moon was a Saturn V rocket.The name of the command module in which they traveled was called Columbia and the lunar module, in which Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the surface, was called Eagle.
Neil Armstrong's rocket ship was named Apollo 11. It was the spacecraft that carried him, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon in 1969.