<P> After the crew of Apollo 10 named their spacecraft Charlie Brown and Snoopy, assistant manager for public affairs Julian Scheer wrote to Manned Spacecraft Center director George M. Low to suggest the Apollo 11 crew be less flippant in naming their craft . The name Snowcone was used for the Command Module and Haystack was used for the Lunar Module in both internal and external communications during early mission planning . </P> <P> The Command Module was named Columbia after the 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 . It also referenced Columbia, a historical name of the United States . The Lunar Module was named Eagle for the national bird of the United States, the bald eagle, which was featured prominently on the mission insignia . </P> <P> The Apollo 11 mission emblem was designed by Collins, who wanted a symbol for "peaceful lunar landing by the United States". At Lovell's suggestion, he chose an eagle as the symbol, put an olive branch in its talons, and drew a lunar background with the Earth in the distance . The sunlight in the image was coming from the wrong direction; the shadow should have been in the lower part of the Earth instead of the left . NASA officials felt that the talons of the eagle looked too "warlike" and after some discussion, the olive branch was moved to the claws . Armstrong was concerned that "eleven" would not be understood by non-English speakers, so they went with "Apollo 11"; they decided not to put their names on the patch, so it would "be representative of everyone who had worked toward a lunar landing". </P> <P> When the Eisenhower dollar coin was released in 1971, the patch design provided the eagle for its reverse side . The design was also used for the smaller Susan B. Anthony dollar unveiled in 1979, ten years after the Apollo 11 mission . </P>

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