Outtakes from Apollo 11 Moon landing reveal out-of-focus shots

I’m an astronaut, not a photographer: Outtakes from Apollo 11 Moon landing reveal the out of focus and embarrassing shots from the historic mission that NASA didn’t want you to see

Never-before-seen images from the Apollo 11 moon landing have emerged 49 years after it occurred
The scans, provided by NASA, were uploaded by self-proclaimed space enthusiast Kipp Teague to his site Project Apollo Archive on Flickr
They feature behind-the-scenes moments from the mission completed in July 1969 by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins
Some of the photos seem candid, such as Armstrong inside the module, and some are out-of-focus including one of a flag on the moon’s surface

Outtakes from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing have emerged 49 years after it occurred.

Provided by NASA to the Project Apollo Archive, a project of self-proclaimed space enthusiast Kipp Teague, the images are sometimes not focused, others times look like accidental captures.

Teague, who has made scans of the images and published them to Flickr, has some of the most well-known photographs on his site including the astronauts’ boot prints on the moon and collecting various soil samples and rocks.

However, the new images provide readers with a behind-the-scenes, detailed view of the eight-day journey.

The set of photos include one of the astronaut’s boots, Neil Armstrong sitting inside the lunar module and an out-of-focus shot of the US flag planted on the moon.

The high-resolution images were taken by the three astronauts – Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins – along with the broadcast feed that was watched by 600 million people around the world when it occurred on July 20, 1969.

Armstrong was famously the first between him and Aldrin, because Collins never left the Command Module, to set foot onto the lunar surface and uttered: ‘That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.’

It was the end of the space race between the US and the Soviet Union and the completion of President John F Kennedy’s 1961 declaration ‘before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.’

Aside from a US flag and some instruments, the team left behind a plaque that reads: ‘Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind’ along with the signatures of the astronauts and President Richard Nixon.

One of the astronaut’s boots steps on the lunar surface, leaving a footprint behind, on the Apollo 11 mission

Commander Neil Armstrong inside the lunar module ahead of making history by being the first man to walk on the moon

An out-of-focus shot of the flag that the explorers planted on the moon, effectively ending the space race between the US and the Soviet Union

The Lunar Module carrying Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin is separated from the Command Module, carrying Michael Collins, and makes its way to the moon

Aldrin slips his sunglasses into his arm pocket as he and Armstrong make their way to the moon in the Lunar Module

Aldrin is pictured descending from the Lunar Module onto the moon’s surface becoming the second man to walk the moon

The Earth’s atmosphere as seen on July 16, 1969. The swirling clouds are the tail end of Hurricane Bernice in the Pacific

The command module is seen from the lunar model in this photo taken from above

The high-resolution images were taken by the three astronauts – Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

Mission apparatus is seen in this photograph which has emerged 49 years after the moon landing happened

Provided by NASA to the Project Apollo Archive, a project of self-proclaimed space enthusiast Kipp Teague, the images are sometimes not focused or look like accidental captures

As well as these images taken by the astronauts, there was also a broadcast feed that was watched by 600 million people around the world when it occurred on July 20, 1969

Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, who never left his outpost, is seen as the group makes its way to the moon

Neil Armstrong is pictured inside the lunar module in this blurry photograph from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing

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