Astronaut Edwin Aldrin deploying Solar Wind Composition experiment

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity on the Moon. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm lunar surface camera. Aldrin has just deployed the Solar Wind Composition experiment, a component of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP).

Catalog Date: 20 July 1969
Film Type: 70mm
NASA image: AS11-40-5964

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