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Buzz Aldrin (le, at le) and Neil Armstrong, at Manned
Spaceflight Center, Houston, take a break from training for the
Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Buzz holds a tool designed for
picking up rocks from the Moon’s surface. The two men later
spent just 21.5 hours on the Moon’s surface, guided under the
distant eye of Mission Control (below).Astronaut Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base,
the Apollo 11 team’s Moon landing site,
with equipment for on-site experiments
and sampling.PHOTO CREDITS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: NASA; NASA / AKG-IMAGES; BETTMANN / CONTRIBUTOR