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But this one is different. The photo was taken by NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin while on the surface of the moon, not long after the Apollo 11 mission landed on the lunar surface for the first time.

The only photo of Neil Armstrong on the moon, taken by Buzz Aldrin, and other historic space photographs are headed to ...

The first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, launched on July 16, 1969. The crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission, from left, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil Armstrong, pose with a ...

However one particular Apollo photograph transcends all others, an image so powerful and eloquent that even today it ranks as one of the most important photographs taken by anyone ever.

One small step': A close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil, photographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Apollo 11 extravehicular ... This image taken by NASA's ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...

The last image, taken at an altitude of 1,600 feet and ... a possible landing zone for a future human landing, and indeed Apollo 11 landed 44 miles southeast of the Ranger 8 impact site in July ...

They were believed to have taken ... the photo of the space boot imprint on the moon — as part of a study of the nature of the soil on its surface. How long did it take Apollo 11 to reach ...

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators today and rolled toward Wednesday's start of ...