Stock Photo - Apollo 11 hasselblad image from film magazine - eva. (20 july 1969) --- the deployment of the early apollo scientific experiments package (easep) is photographed by astronaut neil a. armstrong, apollo 11 commander, during the crew extravehicular activity (eva). here, astronaut edwin e. aldrin jr., lunar module pilot, is deploying the passive seismic experiments package (psep). already deployed is the laser ranging retro-reflector (lr-3), which can be seen to the left and further in the background. in the center background is the lunar module. a flag of the united states is deployed near the lm. in the far left background is the deployed black and white lunar surface television camera. armstrong took this picture with the 70mm lunar surface camera, also. aldrin with assembled seismic experiment. 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.