Mark C. Lee in 1992 in the first untethered spacewalk in a decade. NASA.
The Lens blog, just a few weeks before the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11:
“You can’t bring back anything tangible besides those photographs as a record of where you’ve been and what you’ve done,” he said. (Souvenirs like moon rocks are strictly against protocol.) “We’re given this god’s-eye view, so we need to learn how to capture it and bring it back home.”
What started modestly has become part of every mission. Though digital cameras have replaced film cameras, many early photographs taken by astronauts have become iconic — such as an Apollo image of the earth seen behind the moon’s horizon in 1968 and Buzz Aldrin’s photo of his landmark footprint on the surface of the moon. Mike Gentry, a photo researcher and librarian at the Johnson Space Center in Houston since 1969, said that a photograph of the framed iris of Earth from 1972, known as the “blue marble,” is quite possibly the most reproduced image ever taken.
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