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07-20-2016, 11:00 PM
This is the best photo taken during the Apollo 11 mission, 47 years ago today
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It's a simple picture, really: A backlit photographer's shadow stretched out onto a landscape.
But this one is different.
The photo was taken by NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin while on the surface of the moon, **t long after the Apollo 11 mission landed on the lunar surface for the first time.*
Aldrin's shadow stretches over a truly alien landscape, a place where ** human had set foot before he and Neil Armstrong did 47 years ago today, on July 20, 1969.
SEE ALSO: NASA Remembers Neil Armstrong With Poignant Music Video (http://mashable.com/2013/08/25/nasa-remembers-neil-armstrong/)
And they did it for all of us.*
A plaque attached to the leg of the lunar module that brought Aldrin and Armstrong to the moon reads: "We came in peace for all mankind." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/apollo-11-photo-moon-shadow/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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It's a simple picture, really: A backlit photographer's shadow stretched out onto a landscape.
But this one is different.
The photo was taken by NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin while on the surface of the moon, **t long after the Apollo 11 mission landed on the lunar surface for the first time.*
Aldrin's shadow stretches over a truly alien landscape, a place where ** human had set foot before he and Neil Armstrong did 47 years ago today, on July 20, 1969.
SEE ALSO: NASA Remembers Neil Armstrong With Poignant Music Video (http://mashable.com/2013/08/25/nasa-remembers-neil-armstrong/)
And they did it for all of us.*
A plaque attached to the leg of the lunar module that brought Aldrin and Armstrong to the moon reads: "We came in peace for all mankind." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/20/apollo-11-photo-moon-shadow/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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