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Michael Collins who stayed in the orbiting command module while Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the lunar surface. In addition, there had been other missions that went to the moon but did not land. The Apollo 8 astronauts - Frank Bormann, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders - were the first humans to travel to the moon, although theirs was not a landing mission.

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