This is the very first photo that shows an astronaut’s face while on the Moon as their faces are hidden behind a visor in every other picture. This one is actually a single frame from a video that was being shot from the Lunar Lander and has been converted from film to high-def by Spacecraft Films for Andrew Chailkin’s new book, Voices from the Moon.
As it turns out, Neil Armstrong was the one generally with the camera and most of the photos from the Apollo 11 missions are of Buzz, the second man on the Moon. It’s a good thing that this newly released image will probably go down in history as one of the top, iconic images from that first mission.
Oh look, he didn’t even need sun glasses.
Surely they can come up with more mobile space suits next time they visit a planet.
When was the first time astronauts visited a planet?
Are you really shitting on 1969 space suit design?
Is it a fake or not?
Are you serious?
Are you seriously doubting that question?
I will take whatever sun cream or contact lens shades that Mr. Armstrong was using with me to snowboard.
Unless NANS has some glass technology that is 50 years ahead of whatever is in use with okley’s goggles today.
NASA*, my apologies.
That’s not the first picture of an astronaut’s face. You can see his face in one of the two pictures of him looking at the flag. I don’t know the name of the picture off the top of my head, but if you look at my Apollo 11 Photosynth in grid view, it’s the 10th row down 11th picture over. http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=3fc40b09-f02a-4290-b320-46fca71179bd
Say what? “This one is actually a single frame from a video that was being shot from the Lunar Lander and has been converted from film to high-def.”
Video doesn’t contain ‘frames’. Video is not film. High-def is not film. You can copy video to film, and film to video, however. Converting film to high-def, however, is another matter altogether, as film contains much more detail than 1920×1080 high-def VIDEO.
The real question here is: was this image taken from a video camera tape or from a film reel camera? The latter makes much more sense in the context of the article.