Neil Armstrong's death brought up some discussion of the fact that there are almost no photographs of him on the surface of the moon: most of the photography was assigned to Armstrong, so the pictures are of Aldrin, and it's very hard to tell two men in identical spacesuits apart (later missions added red stripes to the Commander's suit to help with identification). Thanks to my misspent youth collecting things to do with astronomy and spaceflight, I do have a copy of one of the photographs identified as Armstrong, so here it is (the NASA designation is AS11-40-5886):
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Can I have more details about the picture? Is it a vintage photograph printed just after the mission?
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