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Buzz Aldrin signs the labels for the Apollo 11 limited-edition prints, Los Angeles, 2019
Photo: Anca Faur

Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 11. ‘Solar Wind Composition Experiment’

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Dye-sublimation print on ChromaLuxe aluminum panel, ready to hang, 40 x 40 in., 4.2 kg (9.24 lb)

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Revisit the momentous Moon landing on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with TASCHEN’s exclusive, fine art prints.

Edition of 75 numbered copies signed by Buzz Aldrin.

Buzz Aldrin. Apollo 11.
Solar Wind Composition Experiment

July 20, 1969

Revisit the momentous Moon landing on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission with TASCHEN’s exclusive, fine art editioned prints, signed by Buzz Aldrin.

110 hours, 3 minutes, and 24 seconds into the mission: Buzz Aldrin sets up the first of the scientific experiments that will be deployed on the surface—the Solar Wind Composition Experiment. This pristine foil sheet, hung on a mast so it was perpendicular to the direction of the sun, would collect some of the tiny particles spewed from the sun and hurled through the solar system as solar wind.

Exclusive edition of 75 copies signed by Buzz Aldrin
Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on label on verso
Dye-sublimation print on ChromaLuxe aluminum panel, ready to hang
101.6 x 101.6 cm (40 x 40 in.), 4.2 kg (9.24 lb)

Photo Courtesy of NASA

The contributor

Buzz Aldrin made history as one of the first men to walk on the Moon. A graduate of West Point, he earned his Sc.D. in Astronautics from MIT before joining NASA, and the Gemini XII and Apollo 11 missions. He is the founder of the Human Spaceflight Institute, a nonprofit committed to advancing human spaceflight beyond low Earth orbit.