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Astronaut Edwin Aldrin deploying Solar Wind Composition experiment
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AS11-40-5964 (20 July 1969) --- Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, is photographed during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the moon. He is driving one of two core tubes into the lunar soil. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, commander, took this picture with a 70mm lunar surface camera. Aldrin stands near the Solar Wind Composition (SWC) experiment, a component of the Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package (EASEP, deployed earlier).
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Credit lineAstronaut Edwin Aldrin deploying Solar Wind Composition experiment. NASA/JSC, 1969-07-20. Public domain. ID: as11-40-5964.
