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Buzz took this picture (originally shot on color film) of “the surface beneath the LM from near the minus-Y (south) strut. The engine bell is at the upper left. The probe on the south footpad is at right center and we can see how that probe was dragged from the initial contact point. The jettison bag is in the foreground, with two anonymous pieces of trash next to it” (ALSJ caption for AS11- 40-5892).
110:34:13 Aldrin: I’m now in the area of the minus-Y strut, taking some “inspection” photographs.
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Armstrong took this photograph holding the camera in his hand over the center of the footpad to get a clear shot of the plaque.
“We had to guess at the exposures, so I took several different exposures to try to catch the plaque,” said Neil Armstrong (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 110:41:07 GET).
Left on Eagle’s leg, the plaque bears the inscription “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July, 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”
At a White House dinner with President Nixon after the flight, Neil Armstrong referred to the plaque left behind on the LM: “I hope that some wayward stranger in the third millennia may read it and say, ‘This is where it all began.’ It can be a beginning of a new era when man begins to understand his Universe and man begins to truly understand himself.”
“It can be a beginning of a new era when man begins to understand his Universe and man begins to truly understand himself.”
Neil Armstrong
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Armstrong didn’t photograph his first footprint on the Moon but he took this photograph (originally shot on color film) of the first human tracks on the lunar surface near the LM from just north of Eagle’s ladder in order to show the “bulk sample area” where he previously collected samples over a period of about 14 minutes.
“Some 22 or 23 scoops were taken and sealed in one of the sample return containers for return to Earth. This activity required more time than anticipated because the assembly table for packing the samples was in deep shadow” (https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/surface_opp/).
110:40:58 Aldrin: Want to get some particular photographs of the bulk sample area, Neil?276
Buzz took this picture (originally shot on color film) of “the surface beneath the LM from near the minus-Y (south) strut. The engine bell is at the upper left. The probe on the south footpad is at right center and we can see how that probe was dragged from the initial contact point. The jettison bag is in the foreground, with two anonymous pieces of trash next to it” (ALSJ caption for AS11- 40-5892).
110:34:13 Aldrin: I’m now in the area of the minus-Y strut, taking some “inspection” photographs.
346 b
Armstrong took this photograph holding the camera in his hand over the center of the footpad to get a clear shot of the plaque.
“We had to guess at the exposures, so I took several different exposures to try to catch the plaque,” said Neil Armstrong (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 110:41:07 GET).
Left on Eagle’s leg, the plaque bears the inscription “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July, 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.”
At a White House dinner with President Nixon after the flight, Neil Armstrong referred to the plaque left behind on the LM: “I hope that some wayward stranger in the third millennia may read it and say, ‘This is where it all began.’ It can be a beginning of a new era when man begins to understand his Universe and man begins to truly understand himself.”
“It can be a beginning of a new era when man begins to understand his Universe and man begins to truly understand himself.”
Neil Armstrong
346 c
Armstrong didn’t photograph his first footprint on the Moon but he took this photograph (originally shot on color film) of the first human tracks on the lunar surface near the LM from just north of Eagle’s ladder in order to show the “bulk sample area” where he previously collected samples over a period of about 14 minutes.
“Some 22 or 23 scoops were taken and sealed in one of the sample return containers for return to Earth. This activity required more time than anticipated because the assembly table for packing the samples was in deep shadow” (https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/surface_opp/).
110:40:58 Aldrin: Want to get some particular photographs of the bulk sample area, Neil?276
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Lot 346
Sale 20142
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N. Armstrong; B. Aldrin [Apollo 11]
Footprints on the Moon; close-up of the lunar surface under Eagle; the commemorative plaque, July 16-24, 1969
Estimate: GBP 1,200 - 1,800
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Lot 346
Sale 20142
N. Armstrong; B. Aldrin [Apollo 11]
Footprints on the Moon; close-up of the lunar surface under Eagle; the commemorative plaque, July 16-24, 1969
Estimate: GBP 1,200 - 1,800
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