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“At dawn of a two-week lunar day, Edwin Aldrin strides across a small crater near one of Eagle’s foil-wrapped landing probes. Visor reflects his long black shadow, the solar wind collector, the Stars and Stripes planted by the moonwalkers, the white figure of Armstrong (who took this picture), and the buglike lunar module. A few hours earlier the two men had flashed the words that thrilled a waiting world: ‘Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.’ While Armstrong and Aldrin explore the surface, Michael Collin keeps lonely vigil in Columbia, Apollo 11’s command module orbiting the moon.”

—From “First Explorers on the Moon,” December 1969, National Geographic magazine

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