Who were the Apollo 11 support crew members ?
Deke Slayton wrote in his memoirs that Cooper and Donn F. Eisele were never intended to rotate to another mission as both were out of favor with NASA management for various reasons ( Cooper for his lax attitude towards training and Eisele for incidents aboard Apollo 7 and an extramarital affair ) and were assigned to the backup crew simply because of a lack of qualified manpower in the Astronaut Office at the time the assignment needed to be made .