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NASA. HISTORIC APOLLO 11 MISSION. RARE. Captured...

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NASA. HISTORIC APOLLO 11 MISSION. RARE. Captured by the television camera of the APOLLO 11 mission (first televised images made from an extraterrestrial world), astronaut BUZZ ALDRIN is seen planting the solar wind measuring instrument in the lunar soil in front of the lunar module "EAGLE". In the foreground, from behind, astronaut NEIL ARSMTRONG is photographing BUZZ ALDRIN for a shot that will forever be the FIRST PHOTOGRAPH of a human on extraterrestrial soil. This is an absolutely exceptional photograph in the history of photography: the 1st photograph on extraterrestrial soil of a human taking the first photograph of another human. July 20, 1969. WIRE PHOTOGRAPHY silver print. Caption in plate on front. 20.3 X 25.8 CM with margins.