The Photos of the Century 100 Historic Moments – Marie-Monique Robin Bestseller

Buzz Aldrin in his bulky spacesuit stands by the American flag; to the left, the space capsule in which he and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon; behind him, the void. Everyone knows this picture; the reflection of an epoch-making moment, it made history in its own right. It records the fulfillment of one of mankind’s greatest dreams: the first moon-landing, which overcame seemingly insurmountable barriers, achieving a reconnaissance of space in mid-cold war….
On the threshold of the new millennium, this b…