[Gemini XII] — Buzz Aldrin in the First Space Selfie. Vintage NASA "red number" color photograph

[Gemini XII] 

Buzz Aldrin Takes the First Space Selfie, 12 November, 1966

Vintage NASA “Red Number” chromogenic print, 8 x 10 in., “A Kodak Paper” watermark printed on verso. NASA image ID “NASA S-66-62926” printed in upper left margin in red; minor toning.

Buzz Aldrin photographed—using a 70mm Hasselblad camera—with the hatch of the spacecraft open, and the Earth in the background. Along with Command Pilot Jim Lovell, Gemini XII successfully demonstrated that astronauts could effectively work outside of a spacecraft.