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Published July 18, 2009, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: 40th anniversary of lunar landing

It was 40 years ago, July 20, 1969, that man landed on the moon


Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. poses for a photograph July 20, 1969, beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. (Neil Armstrong / NASA file / Associated Press)

  • Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. poses for a photograph July 20, 1969, beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. (Neil Armstrong / NASA file / Associated Press)
  • Neil Armstrong is visible in the visor of Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. in this double-portrait taken on the moon July 20, 1969. (Neil Armstrong / NASA file / Associated Press)
  • The front page of the Duluth News-Tribune on Monday, July 21, 1969, announces the completion of the moon walk. (File / News Tribune)
  • Project Apollo 11 blasts off to the moon from Cape Kennedy, Fla., July 16, 1969. (File / Associated Press)
  • Duluthian Bob Gilruth worked on NASA?s Apollo program that sent men to the moon. (Courtesy Duluth Aviation Institute)
  • Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon. He served as the Gemini 12 mission pilot in 1966 and as the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. His book, "Magnificent Desolation," was published last month. (Associated Press)