Stock Photo - Apollo 11 hasselblad image from film magazine - eva. (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). the swc is in the center background. aldrin works with a core tube alongside the swc. Apollo 11 mission, first landing on the moon, july 1969, with astronauts neil armstrong, edwin aldrin, and michael collins. these images tell the story of the apollo 11 project, from conception to the realization of the first human step on the moon on july 21, 1969.