Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Pashure pokunge Armstrong ashanda somutungamiriri wezvokuchengetedza weApollo 8, Slayton akamupa basa romutungamiriri weApollo 11 musi waDecember 23, 1968, apo Apollo 8 yakatenderera Mwedzi. Mumusangano uyo usina kuitwa pachena kusvikira pakabudiswa biography yaArmstrong muna 2005, Slayton akamuudza kuti kunyange zvazvo vashandi vakarongwa vaiva Commander Armstrong, Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin, uye Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, akanga achipa Armstrong mukana wokutsiva Aldrin naJim Lovell. Mushure mokunge afunga nezvazvo kwezuva rose, Armstrong akaudza Slayton kuti aizonamatira Aldrin, sezvo akanga asina chinetso chokushanda naye uye akafunga kuti Lovell akafanirwa nokutungamirirwa kwake. Kutsiva Aldrin naLovell kungadai kwakaita kuti Lovell ave mutyairi wendege yemwedzi, asiri wepamutemo, uye Armstrong aisagona kururamisa kuisa Lovell, mutungamiriri weGemini 12, pachinzvimbo chechitatu chevashandi. Vashandi veApollo 11 vakaziviswa zviri pamutemo musi waNdira 9, 1969, saArmstrong, Collins, naAldrin, naLovell, Anders, naFred Haise sevashandi vekuchengetedza.Maererano naChris Kraft, musangano waMarch 1969 pakati paSlayton, George Low, Bob Gilruth, naKraft vakasarudza kuti Armstrong aizove munhu wekutanga pamwedzi, chikamu nekuti manejimendi eNASA akamuona semunhu asina ego hombe. Musangano wenhau waApril 14, 1969, wakapa magadzirirwo eimba yeLM sechikonzero chokutanga kwaArmstrong; chivharo chakazaruka mukati nokurudyi, zvichiita kuti zviomere mutyairi wendege yeLunar Module, kurutivi rworudyi, kubuda pakutanga. Panguva yokusangana kwavo, varume vana vacho vakanga vasingazivi nezvokurangarira kwacho. Zivo yokutanga yomusangano wacho kunze kweboka duku yakauya apo Kraft akanyora bhuku rake. Nzira dzokudzivisa nadzo chinetso ichi dzaivapo, asi hazvizivikanwi kana idzi dzakarangarirwa panguva iyoyo. Slayton akawedzera kuti, "Chechipiri, maererano nomutemo chaiwo, ndakafunga kuti mutungamiriri anofanira kuva munhu wokutanga kubuda... Ndakaichinja pakarepo pandakawana kuti vaiva nomutsetse wenguva wairatidza izvozvo. Bob Gilruth akabvuma chisarudzo changu".  Mubvunzo: Chiitiko chenhau chakaitwa rini?
April 14, 1969