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Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan drives a lunar roving vehicle (LRV) on the moon. LRVs, also called moon buggies, helped the astronauts explore more of the moon. -
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Buzz Aldrin, an astronaut on the Apollo 11 mission, stands on the moon in this very famous photograph. It was taken on July 20, 1969, by astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to ever walk on the moon. Aldrin was the second person to walk on the moon. -
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This photo of Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin was taken during the July 1969 mission to the moon. Aldrin and fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first humans to ever walk on another world. -
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Astronaut Buzz Aldrin inspects equipment at Tranquility Base on the moon during Apollo 11's July 1969 mission. The instruments in the picture were left behind on the moon and were designed to collect data long after the astronauts left. -
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Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean descends from a lunar module named Intrepid. Apollo 12 was the second manned mission to land on the moon. -
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This complex-looking object is Apollo 17's Challenger lunar module. It is returning to its command module, named America, after its trip to the moon in December 1972.
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Apollo 16 pilot Charles Duke collects dirt and rock samples near Plum Crater, a 33-foot-deep (10-meter-deep) hollow on the moon's surface.
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