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[Apollo 11] Buzz Aldrin walking next to the golden leg of the LM Eagle. Neil Armstrong, 16–24 July 1969. Printed 1969. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper [NASA image AS11–40-5902]. 25.4×20.3 cm (10×8 in), with "A Kodak Paper“ watermarks on the verso (NASA / US NAVY). Literature: LIFE, 11 August 1969; TIME, 8 August 1969, pg. 23; Moon: Man’s Greatest Adventure, Thomas, ed., pg. 196; Apollo Expeditions to the Moon (NASA SP-350), Cortright, ed., pg. 202. One of the most famous photographs of Apollo 11’s moonwalk. The loneliness of space exploration is captured in this picture of Buzz Aldrin standing by Eagle’s foil wrapped footpad. He is surrounded by a vacuum atmosphere in the one sixth gravity environment. In this silent world he can hear only the crackling of communications, the sounds of his life support system and the echo of his breathing in his helmet. A tiny image of Armstrong taking the photograph can be seen in his reflective faceplate. [NASA original caption for the photograph] Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the moon near a leg of the Lunar Module during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. The astronauts' bootprints are clearly visible in the foreground. While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the Lunar Module (LM) “Eagle” to explore the Sea of Tranquility region of the moon, astronaut Michael Collins command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) “Columbia” in lunar orbit. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong described their impressions as they walked on the surface of another world: “I quickly discovered that I felt balanced comfortably upright only when I was tilted slightly forward. I also felt a bit disorientated – on the Earth when one looks at the horizon, it appears flat; on the Moon, so much smaller than the Earth and quite without high terrain, the horizon in all directions visibly curved away from us.” Buzz Aldrin (from his 1973 book Return to Earth). “We felt very comfortable. It was, in fact, in our view both preferable to weightlessness and to the Earth’s gravity.” Neil Armstrong. Condition Please notice: Additional illustrative material shown in connection with the photograph(s) offered for sale is not included in the lot. Glossy print in excellent condition. Preview In Lyngby Auction Space, 15 November 2023 Category Photos ▸ Vintage photographs Selling 15 November at 6:35 pm Estimate 10,000–15,000 DKK
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