[brudgers]

What I love about the photograph is that it captures his total wonderment at having just fn walked on the fn moon.

He and Aldrin still have to get their spacecraft off the Lunar surface, rendezvous with the command module, fly back to Earth, and land the damn thing.

It captures a timelessness moment in between.

[angstrom]

If nothing else, the following plaque sums the humbling nature of someone who accurately captured the gravitas of the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A11.plaque.jpg

Today, some of the flags planted on the moon still stand upright. However, 40 years of intense UV radiation have bleached them all white. The plaque remains.

[estebank]

Somehow I feel that bleached out featureless flags on the Moon matches the message in that plaque perfectly.