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