Diese Woche vor 52 Jahren machte Harrison H. Schmitt während der Apollo-17-Mission eine Pause vom Mondspaziergang, um mit der amerikanischen Flagge und der Erde zu posieren.

hey look- im in the picture! we are all in the picture!

Image from here

[https://science.nasa.gov/resource/a-scientist-on-the-moon/](https://science.nasa.gov/resource/a-scientist-on-the-moon/)

Astronaut Eugene Cernan is also visible in the reflection in Schmitt’s helmet visor in the awkward position he assumed to obtain this image.

A deep rabbit hole of Apollo 17 images can be found here

[https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a17/images17.html](https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a17/images17.html)

It’s weird how I think it looks so much further away when I see Earth in the sky rather than the Moon. Really brings home the kind of distances involved.

This flag looks shriveled; not open as if it were flapping in the wind.