The only photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon, 16-24 July 1969

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, (NASA image AS11-40-5886), with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, (NASA/North American Rockwell), 20,3 x 25,4 cm

A legendary rarity:
Neil Armstrong is at the MESA (Modular Stowage Equipment Assembly).
He is “packing the bulk sample with an open rockbox on the MESA table”
The American Flag, the Solar Wind Collector and the Plus-Y (north) strut of the LM Eagle are visible.
The shadow of Eagle is in the foreground.

For almost twenty years the only pictures known of Neil Armstrong on the Moon were a few grainy images from the B&W Westinghouse TV camera and the 16mm Maurer color motion picture camera. NASA believed that no Hasselblad still photograph existed of the first man on the Moon.
However, in 1987 two British researchers studying the Apollo 11 voice transcripts realized that one of the photographs in a panorama taken by Aldrin included Neil Armstrong working at the LM.

“The problem was that NASA kept putting out that there weren’t any pictures of me. Because they believed that. But they didn’t know... I don’t think they probably ever asked Buzz or I. As a matter of fact, I think a lot of them didn’t know that you (Buzz) ever took pictures with the Hasselblad.
I don’t know why they wouldn’t; because if they looked through the dialog where you made that statement (about taking the panorama), NASA wouldn’t have made that (mistake).”

Neil Armstrong (from the ALSJ mission transcript: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.5886.html)