The Art of
Apollo 11:
Paying tribute to
NASA's moon landing 47
years later
The celebration of the
Apollo 11 mission anniversary is always a story told with iconic images. Some of the pictures captured of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin could be considered among the most important ever taken
Just mentioning the mission immediately evokes the images of
Aldrin in his space suit, Armstrong
after his moonwalk, the
crescent Earth*and
Aldrin saluting the American flag.
Which makes
Paying tribute to the mission's amazing
landing -- which took place on July 20, 1969 -- more difficult as the
years go by. People have seen, and will continue to see, these momentous images, but there are hundreds
more photos that can give people a subtle sense of what it was like to visit the
moon for the first time.*
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