Postcard with Apollo 11 Commemorative First Day Issue Stamp and Signatures

Description of Moon by Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin EXCERPTS Armstrong: I'm at the foot of the ladder. The LM foot pads are only depressed in the surface about 1 or 2 "That's one small step for a man, inches. Although the surface appears to be very, very fine grained, as you get close to it. It's almost one giant leap for mankind.' like a powder. Now and then, it's very fine. Armstrong: I'm going to step off the LM now. Armstrong: That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind. Armstrong: As The surface is fine and powdery. I can- I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch. Maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles. Aldrin: That looks beautiful from here, Neil. Armstrong: It has a stark beauty all its own. It's like much of the high desert of the United States. It's different but it's very pretty out here. Aldrin: I'd say the color of the, the local surface is very comparable to what we observed from orbit at this sun angle it's pretty much without color. It's gray and it's a very white, chalky gray, as you look into the zero phase line and it's considerably darker gray, more like ash ashen gray as you look up 90 degrees to the sun. The, some of the surface rocks in close here that have been fractured or disturbed by the rocket engine are coated with this light gray on the outside but when they've been broken they display a dark, very dark gray interior and it looks like it could be country basalt.