It's kind of wonderful to me that the Earthrise photo was a bit of a mistake. And they had to scramble to get that color film into the camera. And, at the same time, the fact that we got to see this perfect eclipse from space, this sci-fi view of something that we've never seen anything like before. Also, was not, like- we didn't plan the mission to be able to take that photo or anything; that's just a thing we got lucky enough to get. But in all of these cases, I think it's really important to remember that photographs are art, that part of why the pictures are better from these things than they are when we send probes is because people make these decisions.

Bill Anders yelling to get that color film out. The Artemis crew trying to figure out a way to get Venus in that dark shot with the moon. Which is why some of my favorite pictures are the ones that include the interior of the spacecraft that show the juxtaposition between the foreground of the interior of the capsule, this thing that is made by humans, that is very small, just a submarine out in the ocean of everything. And then through that window, taking up much less space, the little ball where everything is from.

That's what you get when people are making decisions.