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Buzz Aldrin and the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander

Original - Buzz Aldrin gets equipment out of the SEQ bay of the Apollo 11 Lunar lander

Reason

There are minor technical problems such as the crosses that overlay the image. So what? It's a picture of Mankind's first journey to the moon, and it's not exactly a repeatable photograph, unless you believe the conspiracy cranks and can find the sets used by the studio in California.

Articles this image appears in

Apollo 11, Apollo Lunar Module

Creator

Neil Armstrong

• Support as nominator Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 04:46, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Weak support I think tech quality is entirely OK. The crosses are from the pressure plate in the Hasselblad camera, so all shots have them. Support is weak because we see only the back of Aldrin. Threr are better Apollo 11 shots, so if we get an alternative, I can change my vote in favor of that. --Janke | Talk 13:27, 5 March 2008 (UTC) Changing to full support, this indeed shows the LEM to advantage. --Janke | Talk 11:52, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
  • I think this is the best shot of the Lunar Lander on the moon, at least that's been uploaded to commons, and as NASA has released all photos of the Apollo missions, Commons (presumably) has the best of them. Here are the other options.

Shot from Apollo 15. A very good shot, but probably not as encyclopedic for the pages where this one is used. If we were going to switch, though, this is the one to switch to.

commons:Category:Apollo 16 also has a couple, but similarly lack focus. (Also, we'd have to get better resolution photos for those, though the NASA site probably has them).

An Apollo 17 photo, similar to the Apollo 15, though not as good.

And, well, for the record commons:Category:Lunar modules

There are some excellent photos from the Apollo missions, but for encyclopaedic value about the Lunar module, I think this one is the best. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 14:26, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 14:26, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

• Support--Mbz1 (talk) 18:31, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

• Support I think it looks good. The crosshairs don't bother me that much. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 22:34, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
• Support - Good pictures, but i can't help thinking that the background on the second picture looks increadibly fake! Hope it isn't though... ← κεηηε∂γ ^{(talk) (contribs)} 10:16, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Apollo 11 Lunar Lander - 5927 NASA.jpg --Malachirality (talk) 05:33, 13 March 2008 (UTC)