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Above: Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. poses
for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on
the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20,
1969. Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong
were the first men to walk on the lunar surface with
temperatures ranging from 243 degrees above to
279 degrees below zero. Astronaut Michael Collins
flew the command module. The trio was launched
to the moon by a Saturn V launch vehicle at 9:32
a.m. EDT, July 16, 1969. They departed the moon
July 21, 1969. (AP Photo/NASA/Neil A. Armstrong)
Left: View of the earth from the moon, taken from
Apollo 11 in July of 1969.