The last photograph of an Apollo 11 astronaut on the Moon, 16-24 July 1969

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, numbered "NASA AS11-40-5964" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with numbered NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm

The very rare last photograph of a human standing on the surface of the Moon during man’s first exploration of another world.
Buzz Aldrin is completing the activities of the first moonwalk before climbing back inside the LM Eagle for takeoff from the Moon. The final task of the EVA was to take core samples of the lunar surface. Aldrin is hammering a special core tube into the lunar surface. The Solar Wind Collector is visible just beyond the core tube stuck into the lunar surface.

“There were a lot of things to do, and we had a hard time getting them finished. We had very little trouble, much less trouble than expected, on the surface. It was a pleasant operation. Temperatures weren’t high. They were very comfortable. The little EMU, the combination of spacesuit and backpack that sustained our life on the surface, operated magnificently. The primary difficulty was just far too little time to do the variety of things we would have liked. We had the problem of the five-year-old boy in a candy store.”
Neil Armstrong (NASA SP-350, p. 11.5)

Literature:
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, December 1969, p. 768 (variant); Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, pg. 58.