인류최초 달착륙 성공(50주년)-Apollo 11 in July 1969

인류최초 달착륙 성공-Apollo 11 in July 1969

 A portrait of the Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, taken by his fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong, standing on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969. 

 Aldrin has his left arm raised and is likely reading the checklist sewn on the wrist cover of his glove.

  A close-up view of Buzz Aldrin as he walks on the moon, with a reflected view of the lunar module and his photographer, Neil Armstrong, 

  visible in Buzz's visor.

  Aldrin deploys the solar panels of the seismometer. In the background, we can see the TV camera, the U.S. flag, the lunar module, and the lunar laser 

  ranging retroreflector (LRRR), used to measure the distance from the surface of the Earth to the moon using lasers.

  Buzz Aldrin stands before the U.S. flag erected on the landing site. 

  If you look closely, you can see Aldrin's face through the visor, as he turns his head to look at Armstrong.

  Aldrin prepares to remove the passive seismometer from the lander.

  Buzz Aldrin (left) and Neil Armstrong train to make documented sample retrievals, suited up near a mock-up of the lunar lander in the spring of 1969. 

  one of the only clear photos of Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface, taken by Aldrin during their EVA.

  Buzz Aldrin jumps down to the top rung of the ladder of the lunar module, photographed by Armstrong, who had minutes before stepped out onto 

  the surface, uttering the famous phrase "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." 

  This image was taken just prior to one described by Rebecca Boyle as The Most Compelling Photo of the Moon Landing.

  After undocking with the command-and-service module (CSM), the lunar module prepares for descent. 

  Editor's note: This image was previously misidentified as being taken after ascent.

  The plaque left on the moon, attached to a strut on the lunar module. 

  It reads: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind." 

  A view of Earth in the black sky above the lunar module

  Original caption: Practicing for the Big one at Ellington A.F.B., Texas. 

  Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong flies the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle in preparation for the lunar-landing attempt in July. 

  The flight lasted for five minutes, during which Armstrong made two takeoffs and landings. He flew the craft to an altitude of some 300 feet. 

  The crew prepares to depart the moon, leaving the lunar module behind, with Earth visible above the horizon. 

  The LM was jettisoned into an unstable lunar orbit. The orbit decayed, and the lander eventually crashed back onto the moon, but its exact location 

  was not tracked by NASA.

  A photograph of the lunar module by Armstrong, taken from about 150 feet away 

  A last glance at the lunar surface before ascent, the nearby ground marked by boot prints, with a TV camera and a flag left standing

  The sun directly behind him, Buzz Aldrin takes one of a series of photos for a panorama.

  Aldrin made this footprint on an untouched area so he could photograph it for study by soil-mechanics experts. 

  While Aldrin and Armstrong were working on the surface, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit aboard the CSM, flying solo

   for about 24 hours. 

  Back in lunar orbit on July 21, 1969

  The CSM can be seen just left of the center of this image, with the sharp-rimmed Schmidt crater directly left of it. 

  This is the last photo taken from the lunar module prior to the powered descent.

  on July 19, the Apollo 11 crew passed the moon, firing the CSM service propulsion system engine to slow into a lunar orbit.

  A view of the CSM, piloted by Michael Collins, after undocking with the lunar module now carrying Armstrong and Aldrin to the surface. 

  The eastern part of the Sea of Fertility passes by at about 120 miles (195 km) below.

  The Apollo 11 crew approaches Earth on their return trip. 

  After one and a half orbits, a secondary burn pushed the spacecraft on a course toward the moon. 

  Soon after, this photo was taken, looking back toward home.

  on the way home, a look back at the moon, a small part of it newly marked by human bootprints

  on July 24, 1969, the three Apollo 11 astronauts successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. 

  Here, the crew and a U.S. Navy underwater-demolition-team swimmer await pickup by a helicopter from the recovery ship USS Hornet. 

  All four men are wearing biological-isolation garments.

  The 363-foot (111-meter) Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 mission launches from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969.

  Members of the Kennedy Space Center government-industry team rise from their consoles within the Launch Control Center to watch the Apollo 11  

  liftoff through the large windows at the back of the firing room. 

  Among those pictured is the American aerospace engineer JoAnn H. Morgan (seated center, with hand on chin), who at the time was NASA's only

   female engineer. 

  Read more about Morgan here: The Apollo Engineer Who Almost Wasn’t Allowed in the Control Room.

  An interior view of the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, Building 30, during the Apollo 11 lunar extravehicular 

  activity (EVA).

  on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts (from left) Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong head for the van that will take the crew to the rocket

   for launch to the moon at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Florida. 

  An official portrait of Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin

  The Apollo 11 astronauts, inside a Mobile Quarantine Facility aboard the USS Hornet, listen to President Richard Nixon as he welcomes them back to

   Earth and for a job well done, on July 25, 1969

  The Apollo 11 astronauts Collins, Aldrin, and Armstrong appear before a joint session of Congress on September 16, 1969.

   Behind them are Vice President Spiro Agnew (left) and Speaker of the House John McCormick.

  on August 13, 1969, crowds line 42nd Street in New York City, cheering the Apollo 11 astronauts en route to the United Nations. 

  Sitting high in the open car are (from left) Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong.

  In the seat directly in front of them are New York Mayor John Lindsay and UN Secretary General U Thant.

  A final look—a portrait at the beginning, taken only months before, on January 10, 1969, the day after NASA announced their names as the prime

  crew for the lunar landing mission. 

  From left to right are Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin, Commander Neil Armstrong, and Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, photographed in front 

  of a lunar module mockup beside Building 1 at what is now Johnson Space Center.

  A portrait of Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, the crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission to the moon, in the spring of 1969

  A group portrait of NASA's Apollo 11 astronauts posing with their families around a model of the moon in March 1969. 

  Pictured are: (at top, from left) the astronaut Michael Collins; his children, Mike, Kate, and Ann; and his wife, Pat; (at left) the astronaut Buzz Aldrin;

   his wife, Joan; and his children, Mike, Jan, and Andy; and (at right) the astronaut Neil Armstrong; his wife, Jan; and his sons, Ricky and Mark. 

  A preflight photo shows Buzz Aldrin's suit laid out in its lunar-surface configuration.