This is a photograph of the moon's surface featuring a U.S. flag and a person in a white spacesuit. The dark sky beyond contrasts with the brightly lit surface of the gray moon, which is covered in fine, grey dust featuring numerous footprints. In the center of the photograph, the flag stands on a thin rod and extends outward to the left. The person in the spacesuit is on the right, facing the flag. On the left side of the image, parts of a metal object are visible, which look like a metallic framework.
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Buzz Aldrin Poses with Flag

Neil Armstrong (American, 1930 - 2012)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (American, est. 1958)

July 20, 1969

Medium
chromogenic print
Classification
Photograph
Dimensions
image: 18.2 × 18.2 cm (7 3/16 × 7 3/16 in.) ; sheet: 25.2 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CPH
Credit line
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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