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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 26574148, member: 4626&quot;]Did some further research, and took a good look at the reverse design of the Apollo 11 coin....</p><p><br /></p><p>The photograph it&#039;s based on was actually taken by Neil Armstrong.&nbsp; But the composition of the photograph is a little strange, because of what you&#039;re looking at.&nbsp; It&#039;s zoomed in, but that&#039;s the helmet of Buzz Aldrin (so yes, Buzz Aldrin is in the picture, since he&#039;s wearing that helmet).&nbsp; The visor of the helmet shows the reflection... of Neil Armstrong.&nbsp; The shadow is Buzz Aldrin&#039;s (so I got that part right at least!).&nbsp; This is, btw, the only photograph we have of Neil Armstrong on the moon, since he never thought to hand the camera to Aldrin to get in any of the pictures, and it happened entirely on accident.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this coin isn&#039;t as picky as I thought, though technically you can&#039;t see Buzz Aldrin&#039;s face in the reverse design.&nbsp; But the entire design is framed by Aldrin&#039;s helmet, and his head was in that helmet, so... it is still a depiction of Buzz Aldrin, so it counts!&nbsp; It is still really nitpicky lol just not for the reason I originally thought.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all, the famous photograph of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima, we still count the people in the picture whose faces we can&#039;t clearly see, as being in the picture.&nbsp; So by the same standard, Buzz Aldrin is in that picture, and on that coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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