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Neil Armstrong

Overexposed photograph of Buzz Aldrin inside the LM Eagle

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

Unreleased photograph (originally shot on color film), USGS (United States Geological Survey) vintage gelatin silver “proof” print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “AS11-37-5531” in margin

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Neil Armstrong

The lunar-science station seen from the LM window

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

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS11-37-5551” in red in top margin

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Buzz Aldrin

The American Flag and human footprints on the Moon

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

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA MSC) [NASA AS11- 37-5545]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Lot Essay

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Armstrong and Aldrin took pictures out the LM windows and of each other prior to doing the depressurization of the cabin and jettisoning unnecessary items (to save weight for takeoff).
This photograph was washed out by the extremely bright light being reflected from the surface in Aldrin’s window.

“It was surprising to me how much at home I felt in Eagle because of all the simulations we had done back home,” said Aldrin. “The view of the Moon from the surface and the EVA itself have much less reality to me now than have those familiar operations inside Eagle” (Life, August 22, 1969).

112:21:31 Aldrin: We’ve probably got another half an hour’s worth of picture taking, and I guess we could run through an eat cycle and then change the canister, and then Depress. Over.

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The lunar science station was located 15m south of the LM. In the far background is the Passive Seismic Experiment Package; and to the right and closer to the camera is the Laser Ranging Retro- Reflector. A LM thruster appears on the foreground. Astronauts’ footprints leading to the lunar-science station are very distinct.

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Surrounded by footprints left by the first men to walk upon the Moon, the American flag stands on the surface of the Sea of Tranquility.

“In the far background is the deployed B&W lunar surface TV camera which televised the lunar surface extravehicular activity. The shadow on the right of the flag just below the LM thruster comes from the SWC (Solar Wind Collector) pole” (ALSJ caption for AS11-37-5545).

This very famous photograph graced the cover of Life magazine on August 8, 1969.