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a11_v_bw_o_n (unnumbered, original 1969 press photo)

“TRANQUILITY BASE, THE MOON: A shadow-shrouded Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, begins to deploy equipment a few minutes after taking the first momentous and historic step 7/20.”

 

More specifically, it’s around the time Armstrong began taking the first photographs while standing on the lunar surface, using his RCU-mounted, Hasselblad 500 EL Data Camera.

 

It looks like the still was taken from some time between the ~10:02 to ~10:44 mark:

 

youtu.be/S9HdPi9Ikhk?si=NLp9mxIIKDCwKqrR

Credit: NASA/YouTube

 

Finally, note the long, rectangular, metallic object obscuring most of the left handrail & rungs of the ladder. It contains the United States flag that was later deployed.

Excellent visual context:

 

historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/f...

 

Informative reading pertaining to such:

 

historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/f...

 

Even more/better:

 

epizodyspace.ru/bibl/inostr-yazyki/Houston_History/2008/1...(2008).pdf

Credit: some russian website

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