Apollo 11 Lunar Plaque Signed Photograph.

ARMSTRONG, Neil. Buzz Aldrin.

Item Number: 109804

Full color photograph of the Apollo 11 Lunar plaque, the first Lunar plague to be left on the surface of the moon. Signed on the mount by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. NASA’s head of technical services, Jack Kinzler, first suggested the idea of affixing a stainless steel  plaque to the ladder on the descent stage of lunar modules which were discarded and left on the lunar surface after passengers returned to their command modules. The Apollo 11 Lunar plaque bears the famous words, “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969, A. D., We came in peace for all mankind.” In fine condition. Triple matted and framed. The entire piece measures 18  inches by 14 inches. Rare and desirable.

On July 20th 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on the lunar surface. Six hours after landing, Neil Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface; Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later and the two spent over two hours collecting lunar materials. Armstrong's first step onto the lunar surface was broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience, during which he uttered the historic phrase, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Apollo 11 effectively ended the Space Race and fulfilled a national goal proposed in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy: "before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."