Charlie Duke Signed “Moon Walk Reflection” Photograph.

DUKE, Charlie. [Neil Armstrong; Buzz Aldrin].

Item Number: 142831

Rare large format glossy color print of the July 20, 1969 photograph of Neil Armstrong reflected in the helmet visor of Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon, signed by Apollo II Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM) Charlie Duke in the upper left corner, “Standing at Tranquility Base Commander Neil A. Armstrong & Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin ‘The Eagle has landed'” and signed at top right “Charlie Duke Apollo 11 Capcom 20 July 1969.” In fine condition. The photograph measures 20 inches by 16 inches.

As Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, Charles Duke became the tenth and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days. In April 1966, Duke was one of nineteen men selected for NASA's fifth group of astronauts. In 1969, he was a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 10. He served as CAPCOM for Apollo 11, the first crewed landing on the Moon. His distinctive Southern drawl became familiar to audiences around the world, as the voice of a Mission Control made nervous by a long landing that almost expended all of the Lunar Module Eagle descent stage's propellant. Duke's first words to the Apollo 11 crew on the surface of the Moon were flustered, "Roger, Twank...Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!"