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AS11-40-5878 (20 July 1969) --- A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil,

photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera

during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the Moon.

While astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot,

descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon,

astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot,

remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit.

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AS11-40-5875 (20 JULY 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.,

lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission,

poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag

during an Apollo 11 Extravehicular Activity (EVA) on the lunar surface.

The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left,

and the footprints of the astronauts are clearly visible in the soil of the Moon.

Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander,

took this picture with a 70mm Hasselblad lunar surface camera.

While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM,

the "Eagle", to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the Moon,

astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot,

remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar-orbit.

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"That's one small step for man but one giant leap for mankind."        July 20, 1969

http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/introduction.htm

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21/newsid_2635000/2635845.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1002715,00.html

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2003/summer/20-july-1969.html

http://www.time.com/time/80days/690720.html

Apollo 8        A View from Lunar Orbit        1968

The crew of Apollo 8 was armed with still and movie cameras to photograph the Moon;

but the most enduring image of their mission

is this photograph of their own home, planet Earth.

According to Anders,

the astronauts saw the horizon vertically

—not horizontally—

with the lunar surface to the right.
 

National Archives, Records of the U.S. Information Agency [306-PSD-68-4049c]
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/eyewitness/html.php?section=25

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