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Photo by Eric Long/NASM, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian InstitutionCopyright: Smithsonian InstitutionImage Number: WEB10113-2004
The spacesuits Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin wore in July 1969 as the first humans on the moon are displayed in the museum's Apollo to the Moon gallery in the flagship building on the National Mall in Washington.