1969 Photo Contest, Others, Individual awards
Photographer

Neil Armstrong

NASA

21 July, 1969

Astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin places the lunar seismometer on the moon's surface near the Sea of Tranquility.

About the photographer

Neil Armstrong

Neil Alden Armstrong (1930 - 2012) was an astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, ...

Technical information

Camera
Hasselblad

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