Ta for that. Didn’t know that, wouldn’t have picked it, definitely one of the flag ones or a distance shot would be my pick for first shot. Makes sense though, I’d be taking one of the craft with a sense of pride in the foot settled there.
“There Are No Photos of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
By Jack Clemons – February 24, 2017
On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the Moon. During the next two and a half hours on the lunar surface, between the two of them Apollo 11 Commander Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin took well over 100 photographs as they set about exploring it. Among these are two dozen photographs of Buzz Aldrin taken by Armstrong.
But there exists not one usable photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon. In fact, all of the widely circulated photographs of an Apollo 11 astronaut on the Moon are of Buzz Aldrin…
In his outstanding biography of Armstrong, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, James Hansen asked former Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz why he thought there are no iconic historic photographs of the first human being to set foot on another world.
“I don’t have an explanation” Kranz answered, “In recent years I have been speaking to about 100,000 people a year…. And the only picture I can put up on the screen of Neil is his reflection in Buzz’s facemask…
Fortunately for all of us, Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Pilot did take one clear (if belated) shot of Neil. The photograph below [not linked] of America’s first man on the Moon was taken inside the Lunar Module after his walk on the Moon was over. Armstrong seemed genuinely happy at that moment. We’ll have to be satisfied with that.”
Nice low-key piece on the big occasion.
That was the first photograph taken on the moon.
Ta for that. Didn’t know that, wouldn’t have picked it, definitely one of the flag ones or a distance shot would be my pick for first shot. Makes sense though, I’d be taking one of the craft with a sense of pride in the foot settled there.
“There Are No Photos of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
By Jack Clemons – February 24, 2017
On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the Moon. During the next two and a half hours on the lunar surface, between the two of them Apollo 11 Commander Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin took well over 100 photographs as they set about exploring it. Among these are two dozen photographs of Buzz Aldrin taken by Armstrong.
But there exists not one usable photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon. In fact, all of the widely circulated photographs of an Apollo 11 astronaut on the Moon are of Buzz Aldrin…
In his outstanding biography of Armstrong, First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong, James Hansen asked former Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz why he thought there are no iconic historic photographs of the first human being to set foot on another world.
“I don’t have an explanation” Kranz answered, “In recent years I have been speaking to about 100,000 people a year…. And the only picture I can put up on the screen of Neil is his reflection in Buzz’s facemask…
Fortunately for all of us, Apollo 11’s Lunar Module Pilot did take one clear (if belated) shot of Neil. The photograph below [not linked] of America’s first man on the Moon was taken inside the Lunar Module after his walk on the Moon was over. Armstrong seemed genuinely happy at that moment. We’ll have to be satisfied with that.”