This is the best photo taken during the Apollo 11 mission, 47 years ago today
 

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.

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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...


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