Posted on 07/19/2009 2:27:22 PM PDT by Steelfish
Never-before seen photo shows Neil Armstrong's face as he first walks across the moon
19th July 2009
An amazing new photograph showing Neil Armstrong's face through his space suit visor has come to light.
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The image was shot by the movie camera mounted on the lunar lander famously called 'Eagle', but the frame lasts for only a fleeting moment. It shows Armstrong's face in clear view as he walks across the lunar surface.
Face first: Neil Armstrong has been presented with a copy of the picture He was the first man to walk on the moon, taking that one giant leap for mankind - yet most of the famous shots are of his fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin, as it was Armstrong who manned the stills camera.
Spacecraft Films, an Ohio-based specialist in historical space footage, has transferred the footage into high definition format and captured the split-second scene as a still image, now released for the first time in a new book, Voices from the Moon, by author Andrew Chaikin.
'This is the first time that the public are seeing it,' said Chaikin, revealing that even Armstrong - despite his modest ways - was quietly impressed to receive one of the new prints of himself as a souvenir.
'All the iconic pictures from the moon are of Buzz...there really hasn't been one of Neil. I gave him a copy and he seemed pleased to have it.'
The moment was captured as Armstrong gathered samples of moon rocks during his 21-hour visit to the lunar surface exactly 40 years ago, on July 20, 1969.
'Armstrong raised his outer visor, the gold reflective visor that normally obscures an astronaut's face,' explained Mr Chaikin.
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We paid for him to make history. He had to know that. Instead he hid out at the U. of Cinncinati. Not cool. He is a national hero.
I’d hit that!!!
The reason is that they can now prove that the little white dot in the background of the reflection on Neil Armstrong’s visor....is a studio floodlamp.
They say that today’s technology could read the brand and wattage on the light bulb.
;^)
That photo looks almost as real as Tom Hanks receiving the Medal of Honor from Lyndon Johnson in “Forrest Gump.”
In “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” today, I saw Ginny Weasley flying on a broom at 40 mph and it looked more realistic than that photo.
Know what you mean,I used a Minolta 101 up to
about 4 yrs ago,Sony digital these days
How the heck was that taken? Where would Aldrin have to have been in order to get a top down shot like that?
He doesn't owe me a thing!
I met him in 1963 in a private home in Houston. After he left we were told he would be the first man to walk on the moon. What amazed me was they had planned that far ahead. He was a new astronaut at the time.
I went with the Canon EOS system, but there are so many damned settings and gadgets....plus my eyesight desperately needs the auto-focus feature.
Just have to get back to using depth of field and backlighting. SIGH!
He couldhave used his fame to promote the space program and encourage young people to join in he venture. He didn’t. I admire him as much as anyone for his bravery. He could have done more.
In addition, as commander, he choseh himself to be the first man on the moon. What did he think would happen?
Didn't he become somewhat of a recluse?
I think some of the astronauts had trouble with celebrity. They were military guys who didn't start out craving fame and fortune ---unlike actors.
Buzz Aldrin was just on Fox News talking about how he had trouble adjusting...divorced and had a bout with alcoholism after the moon landing.
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Yes he did. He became an engineering professor at the U. of cinncinati. I still think he could have done more to promote the space prrogram. What did he thnink being the first human to walk on another celestial body beside Earth would mean.?
That is what I’ve always thought. They had to wear the reflective visors on their helmets because of the sun, unless they were really in the desert.
That is the way a person acts who is living a lie and their life is miserable.
Okay! They really landed in an Arizona desert.
OK...then who was it left all those beer cans and flag poles up on the moon?
What FReeper in the past always thought that the moon landing was faked? Dirty Harry, Callahan, something,...I'm having a senior moment...
I remember telling him/her that I saw the guys get on the rocket, saw it go up, from roughly 5 miles away, and the Soviets didn't say a word (of course, they had the telemetry, telescopes, etc.), during the flight, or after the splash down.
5.56mm
*sheepishly raises hand*
It was me- sorry.
I found a speech on Youtube that Neil Armstrong gave during the Clinton years, and an interview with 60 Minutes. He’s an awful public speaker, knows it, and is uncomfortable with it. He also feels, as do so many people that society calls ‘heroes’, that he just did his job, and deserves no special mention beyond that. He also seems to be more comfortable discussing tangible, quantifiable things and less comfortable discussing the stuff that people always want to ask, like ‘what did it feel like’ to walk on the Moon.
So with all of these things taken together, I can kind of see why he likes to stay out of the limelight.
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