Alexander Gerst performing the Grip experiment

There is only one photo of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, and in it, he has his back to the camera. The first person to step foot on another planetary body, he was not camera shy. It was just that for most of the time on the moon, he had the only camera.

The early days of Project Mercury, when Shepard, Glenn, Slayton, Grissom, Schirra, Cooper and Carpenter were legends in the making.