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As the most evocative image from our landing on the Moon, I would chose the
picture that the world has picked: The one that shows the reflection in my
visor. The picture taken just before that shows me walking toward the lunar
module. Neil took the first picture, a profile, then he said, "Stop and
turn." I stopped, turned and looked at him -- and immediately he took it. So
that was a spontaneous picture, not at all posed. My hands wouldn't have
been that way, with the arm kind of crooked.
[When I first jumped down the ladder from the Eagle], our next procedure
was to jump back up
again, and see how difficult that was. So I jumped
-- but I didn't jump hard enough. I missed the
first step. And that, I'm sure, is what caused the
smudges on my knees. Dust must have got on that bottom rung
from Neil when he jumped up first. How else could
it have gotten there?
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