"Up to now, we haven't had a good picture of Neil Armstrong on the moon," Chaikin says, "but now we have one." Click see the full frame. At his feet is the handle for the sample collection tool. Neil Armstrong stands on the moon shortly after collecting a sample of lunar dust and rocks. "So, when I got into 'Voices from the Moon' and I wanted to make use of the best mission photography that I could get my hands on, one of the prime things I wanted to put in the book was a high definition scan of with Neil Armstrong standing on the Moon." "I could see that Armstrong had raised his outer visor, the gold visor that normally obscures an astronaut's face from view, and that was something that always stayed with me as something that was very cool," said Chaikin. In the scenes of Armstrong collecting the first sample of moon dust, Chaikin saw something he was not expecting: the astronaut's face. "When I looked at the footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk, I saw something that really got my attention," Chaikin recalled in an interview with collectSPACE. The book, "Voices from the Moon: Apollo Astronauts Describe Their Lunar Experiences," which is now on store shelves, draws on the extensive interviews Chaikin performed with 23 of the 24 moon voyagers while researching his 1994 Apollo book "A Man on the Moon."Ĭhaikin, who co-authored the new book with wife Victoria Kohl, first saw the new image of Armstrong in 1986 while researching A Man on the Moon, which became the basis for Tom Hanks' HBO miniseries, "From The Earth to the Moon."Īt the time, Chaikin was screening Apollo film footage at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Now, in a new book by Apollo historian Andrew Chaikin, a new image of the Apollo 11 astronaut taken early in the moonwalk brings readers face-to-face with Armstrong on the Moon.
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