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|image=Aldrin Apollo 11 original.jpg
|size=380
|title=[[Apollo 11]]
|texttitle=Apollo 11
|alttext=Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong
|caption=
'''[[Apollo 11]]''' was the fifth crewed mission of [[NASA]]'s [[Apollo program]]. After launching from the [[Kennedy Space Center]] in Florida on July 16, 1969, commander [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Apollo Lunar Module|lunar module]] pilot [[Buzz Aldrin]] landed ''Eagle'' on July 20, at 20:17:40 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]], in [[Mare Tranquillitatis]], while [[Apollo command and service module|command module]] pilot [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]] remained on ''Columbia'' in lunar orbit. Armstrong was the first to exit the spacecraft, stepping onto the surface about six hours later, on July 21, at 02:56:15 UTC; nineteen minutes later, Aldrin joined him on [[extravehicular activity]], lasting 2 hours, 31 minutes and 40 seconds. Armstrong and Aldrin lifted off from [[Tranquility Base]] after almost 22 hours on the lunar surface and rejoined Collins in the command module, before [[Splashdown|splashing down]] in the Pacific Ocean on July 24.
The mission was planned to the minute, with the majority of the photographic tasks performed by Armstrong with a single [[Hasselblad]] camera. Most of the photographs taken on the Moon that include an astronaut are of Aldrin; there are only five images of Armstrong partly shown or reflected, as in this iconic photograph, with Armstrong and the lunar module reflected in Aldrin's helmet visor. "As the sequence of lunar operations evolved," Aldrin explained, "Neil had the camera most of the time [...] It wasn't until we were back on Earth and in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory looking over the pictures that we realized there were few pictures of Neil."
|credit=Photograph credit: [[Neil Armstrong]]
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==See also==
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|image=Aldrin Apollo 11 original.jpg
|size=380
|title=[[Apollo 11]]
|texttitle=Apollo 11
|alttext=Buzz Aldrin on the Moon, photographed by Neil Armstrong
|caption=
'''[[Apollo 11]]''' was the fifth crewed mission of [[NASA]]'s [[Apollo program]]. After launching from the [[Kennedy Space Center]] in Florida on July 16, 1969, commander [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Apollo Lunar Module|lunar module]] pilot [[Buzz Aldrin]] landed ''Eagle'' on July 20, at 20:17:40 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]], in [[Mare Tranquillitatis]], while [[Apollo command and service module|command module]] pilot [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]] remained on ''Columbia'' in lunar orbit. Armstrong was the first to exit the spacecraft, stepping onto the surface about six hours later, on July 21, at 02:56:15 UTC; nineteen minutes later, Aldrin joined him on [[extravehicular activity]], lasting 2 hours, 31 minutes and 40 seconds. Armstrong and Aldrin lifted off from [[Tranquility Base]] after almost 22 hours on the lunar surface and rejoined Collins in the command module, before [[Splashdown|splashing down]] in the Pacific Ocean on July 24.
The mission was planned to the minute, with the majority of the photographic tasks performed by Armstrong with a single [[Hasselblad]] camera. Most of the photographs taken on the Moon that include an astronaut are of Aldrin; there are only five images of Armstrong partly shown or reflected, as in this iconic photograph, with Armstrong and the lunar module reflected in Aldrin's helmet visor. "As the sequence of lunar operations evolved," Aldrin explained, "Neil had the camera most of the time [...] It wasn't until we were back on Earth and in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory looking over the pictures that we realized there were few pictures of Neil."
|credit=Photograph credit: [[Neil Armstrong]]
}}
<noinclude>[[Category:Wikipedia Picture of the day {{#time:F Y|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}]]
==See also==
*[[Template:POTD{{#ifeq:{{BASEPAGENAME}}|POTD protected||_protected}}/{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>