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Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin on the footpad of the Lunar Module "Eagle" just before making his first step on the Moon, Apollo 11, 16-24 July 1969 Vintage gelatin silver print on resin coated Kodak paper [NASA photo No AS11-40-5869, originally shot on colour film], 25,4 x 20,3 cm (10 x 7.9 in), with NASA caption numbered AS11-40-5869 and THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK watermarks on verso (printed mid-1970s) (NASA Kennedy Space Center) Footnote: Aldrin followed Armstrong out of the LM about 19 minutes later, and for another two and a quarter hours they explored where no man had walked before. "When I stepped down onto the surface and felt each movement carried by the slow-motion sensation of one-sixth gravity, I spontaneously exclaimed, 'Magnificent desolation'" Buzz Aldrin