NASA Apollo 11, July 1969. Lunar plate. Period chromogenic print on "A Kodak Paper" paper. NASA S-69-38749 numbering in the upper margin. Image: 24. 4 x 18.4 cm Leaf: 25.5 x 20.4 cm The lunar plates were fixed on the space shuttles and then left on the surface of the Moon. The Apollo 11 mission stated: "Here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon, July 1969. We came in peace for all mankind".