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a11_v_c_o_AKP (unnumbered, AS11-40-5866 eq)

Buzz is jumping down to the top rung of the ladder and hasn't quite landed on it. He is gripping the handrail with both hands and, rather than walk down the ladder, he is hopping down. In a detail

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11det5866.jpg

we can see the feedwater controls on the righthand corner of the bottom of Buzz's PLSS. In a second detail [although NOT the same photo, despite URL content)

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11lbl5866LEC-Tether.jpg

the LEC strap and hooks are labeled along with the strap and hooks of the waist tether Buzz has just attched to the porch rail. In the full photo, the MESA is immediately beyond the lower rungs of the ladder. John Sarkissian has spotted the TV lens peeking out from under the MESA blanket in an enhanced detail.

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11EnhcDet5866TV.jpg

Compare with training photo S69-31060.

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11TVlblS69-31060.jpg

Vlad Pustynski notes that the bright boulder visible just above the MESA and just to the right of the inside edge of the north strut can also be seen in 5903.

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5903HR.jpg

 

All above per the ALSJ.

 

And/or:

 

"Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, egresses the Lunar Module (LM) "Eagle" and begins to descend the steps of the LM ladder as he prepares to walk on the moon. This photograph was taken by astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). While astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the LM "Eagle" to explore the moon, astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Columbia" in lunar orbit."

 

At:

 

spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo11/html/...

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Uploaded on November 8, 2018