![]() Armstrong and command module pilot Michael Collins ( here, here ). As for the light in the background, acting NASA chief historian Brian Odom ( here) told Reuters via phone that it is a lens flare from the sun ( here).Īldrin was not on the Apollo 16 mission, but rather the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, joined by Commander Neil A. Provided by NASA, the original photo, taken by Apollo 16’s commander John W. Duke, Jr., the lunar module pilot who crewed the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, collecting lunar samples near the rim of Plum Crater. This image does not show Aldrin, but rather Charles M. Some iterations here include an image of an astronaut standing near a crater on the moon with a ball of light in the distance that has been circled in red. Posts making this claim appeared on Facebook as far back as 2015 ( here). Recent examples of posts can be found here and here. ![]() Armstrong was the photographer for this image. Apollo 11, launched forty years ago today on July 16, 1969, carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, who was the Mission Commander and the first man to step on the moon, Aldrin, who was the Lunar Module Pilot, and Michael Collins, who was the Command Module pilot. astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, one of three Apollo 11 astronauts, during the lunar landing mission on July 20, 1969.
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