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Taken by a 16mm Maurer camera mounted by Buzz Aldrin on outside of the spacecraft

Buzz Aldrin’s stand-up EVA in the open hatch of the spacecraft

Gemini XII, November 11-15, 1966, 019:29:00 to 021:58:00 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 S-66-63537” in red in top margin

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Buzz Aldrin

EVA photograph; the spacecraft docked with the Agena over the Pacific Ocean

Gemini XII, November 11-15, 1966, orbit 13, 020:33:21 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, numbered “NASA S-66-62868” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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“The first standup EVA took place with the hatch opening at 019:29:00 GET and Aldrin standing on his seat with his upper body out of the hatch. The EVA lasted 2 hours 29 minutes during which Aldrin mounted a camera to the side of the spacecraft and collected a micrometeorite experiment, with the hatch closing at 021:58:00 GET” (https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1966-104A).

Here, Aldrin “prepares camera for installation on outside of the spacecraft” (NASA caption).

The camera (the blue Maurer 70mm space camera in the left foreground) was used by Aldrin to take UV pictures and spectrograms of stars and starfields.
The Gemini spacecraft is docked with the Agena Target Docking Vehicle visible in the background. Aldrin had first installed the Maurer 16mm movie camera on outside of the spacecraft to record his activities. He is floating in zero g in the open hatch with the US flag decal visible on his left shoulder.

From the mission transcript during the EVA:

019:34:04 Aldrin: I imagine there’s a little bit of tension on my hoses now, but otherwise I’m floating now, completely free. My feet are just above the seat.
019:34:25 Lovell: Okay.
019:34:28 Aldrin: What a beautiful view. [...]
019:35:08 Aldrin: What a thrill!

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This is the first photograph taken by Aldrin with the Super-Wide Hasselblad camera and its 38mm lens as he stood in the open hatch of the spacecraft during his stand up EVA. The L-band antenna of the Agena satellite is in the foreground.

020:31:23 Aldrin: And give me something to take a picture of.
020:31:26 Lovell: Okay. I’m turning around this - I’m going to rotate - yawing right, all the way around till the Sun is behind you.
020:31:33 Lovell: Okay?
020:31:35 Aldrin: Yes. Yawing around to the right. All right. [...]
020:33:14 Aldrin Lots and lots of water out here.
020:33:21 Lovell: Might as well start taking pictures. [...]
020:34:45 Aldrin: Lots and lots of Pacific Ocean down there.