News reports of the recent flight around the moon talked about the astronauts impressions of seeing the far side, and their adaptations to space travel including toilet repair. One pictures them jockeying for position at the capsule's window trying to make snapshots of the moon's surface. Had they taken time for a space walk, we might have seen this scenario:
What is clear is that for all that money spent little real science was accomplished. Humans are not required for making pictures, or really anything else in space exploration.
Update:
It turns out my AI-generated image was not as far out as I thought according to a note by radspix on Flickr:
With a nod of appreciation to our current astronauts.
The original Minolta Hi-Matic (rebranded as the Ansco Autoset) achieved fame for being the first Minolta camera in space, taken by John Glenn on the Friendship 7 mission in 1962. It was the first camera used by the Americans to capture colour photographs from space. So the story goes, John Glenn purchased the camera from a local drug store and NASA modified it to enable it's use by gloved hands. NASA apparently thought the camera was manufactured in the USA.
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