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Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin’s gold-plated sun visor reflects the photographer and the LM Eagle

Apollo 11, July 20, 1969, 110:42:39 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper with red NASA MSC number “AS11-40-5903” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso with NASA MSC caption.
8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.)
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The full Hasselblad frame of the most famous image of a man on the Moon.

“As I walked away from the Eagle Lunar Module. Neil said, ‘Hold it, Buzz.’ So I stopped and turned around, and then he took what has become known as the ‘Visor’ photo. I like this photo because it captures the moment of a solitary figure against the horizon of the Moon, along with a reflection in my helmet’s visor of our home away from home, the Eagle, and of Neil snapping the photo.”
Buzz Aldrin (Jacobs, p. 63)

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