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ForSpace Helment Reflection Saturday, the rare real-life version: Painted by Pierre Mion for National Geographic, Apollo 15’s Jim Irwin is framed against the moon while assisting the (reflected) Al Worden in a spacewalk to recover film cassettes on Aug 5, 1971.
You can read through a transcript of the spacewalk over here, complete with a line from Worden as he witnesses the view that Mion recreated here: “Jim, you look absolutely fantastic against that Moon back there. That is really a most unbelievable, remarkable thing.”
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An oblique view of an area of the lunar farside, looking southward, as photographed from the Apollo 15 spacecraft in lunar orbit. The crater Zelinsky is in the near foreground at the edge of the picture. The circular, mare-like area in the center is the crater Thomson. Thomson is almost completely surrounded by Mare Ingenii. The approximate coordinates of the center of Thomson are 166 degrees east longitude and 32.2 degrees south latitude.
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A view of the Apollo 15 Command and Service Modules in lunar orbit as photographed from the Lunar Module just after rendezvous. The lunar nearside is in the background is looking southeast into the Sea of Fertility. The crater Taruntius is at the right center edge of the picture.
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