[APOLLO 11]. VINTAGE NASA "RED NUMBER" PHOTOGRAPH OF EAGLE'S RETURN FROM THE LUNAR SURFACE

Vintage “NASA Red Number” color photograph, 8 by 10 inches with “A Kodak Paper” watermark on verso. The identification number “NASA AS11-44-6642” is printed in red near the upper left corner. A full frame Hasselblad photograph 7 inches square in size.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED: “BUZZ ALDRIN, Apollo XI.” Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in Lunar Module Eagle’s ascent stage approach Michael Collins in Command/Service Module Columbia for docking some 4 hours after leaving the Moon’s surface. Armstrong and Aldrin had just made Man’s first landing on the Moon just 26 hours earlier and explored the surface for nearly 2 and ½ hours.