Buzz Aldrin

Panorama of Tranquillity Base seen from the LM Eagle after the historic moonwalk

Apollo 11, July 16-24, 1969, 112:20:56 GET

Unique hand mosaic of three vintage chromogenic prints on fiber-based Kodak paper, overall size 47 x 25 cm, with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS11-37-5472, AS11-37- 5473, AS11-37-5475” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with restorations in right margin
47 x 25 cm

Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, La Lune: Du Voyage Réel aux Voyages Imaginaires, April- July 2019; exhibition catalogue, pp. 30-31, no. 23, illustrated.

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The black shadow of Eagle is silhouetted against the Moon’s surface in this panoramic view taken from Aldrin’s Lunar Module Pilot window with the IVA Hasselblad camera equipped with a 80mm lens.

Impressions in the lunar soil made by the lunar boots of the two astronauts are clearly visible as well as the American flag and the TV camera which recorded the EVA for the viewers on Earth. The LM thruster is in the right foreground.

“There are footprints on the moon. Those footprints belong to each and every one of you, to all mankind. They are there because of the blood, sweat, and tears of millions of people. Those footprints are the symbol of true human spirit.”
Buzz Aldrin (acceptance speech for the Medal of Freedom, August 13, 1969)