The official NASA portrait of Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission. |
Armstrong leads out his crew, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, to the rocket on July 16 1969. |
The Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo 11 mission blasts off at Cape Kennedy. |
The Apollo 11 crew: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Eugene, or 'Buzz', Aldrin. |
Armstrong speaks to a technician during a suiting at the Kennedy Space Centre shortly before the moon mission. |
A long shot of the lift-off of Saturn V. |
A Parisian family watch as French TV shows Armstrong setting his foot on the moon on 21 July 1969. |
Armstrong in chipper mood on the return journey. |
The astronauts smile at their wives from their quarantine chamber after their return. |
A ticker tape parade in New York awaited the heroes on their return. |
Armstrong with his wife, Jan, and son Mark, then 10, in their home in Houston, Texas, a few months before the mission began. |
President Richard Nixon meets the astronauts and their wives on 15 August 1969. |
One of the defining images of the Apollo 11 mission: a photo of Aldrin by Armstrong, visible in the reflection of Aldrin's helmet. |
Portrait of Armstrong in 1959, 10 years prior to the journey that would immortalise him. |
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