“I don’t like posed pictures; I don’t even like to pose myself. I figure there are two things wrong with them: first it’s an imposition on the subject, and second, you don’t capture the real person,” said Walter Cunningham (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 90).
Astronaut Walter Cunningham, Apollo 7 Lunar Module Pilot, writes with space pen as he is photographed performing flight tasks on the ninth day of the Apollo 7 mission. Note the 70mm Hasselblad camera film magazine just above Cunningham’s right hand floating in the weightless (zero gravity) environment of the spacecraft.
“Like new Magellans, astronauts learned to navigate in space. Here Walt Cunningham makes his observations through a spacecraft window. The tools of a space navigator included a sextant to sight on the stars, a gyroscopically stabilized platform to hold a constant reference in space, and a computer to link the data and make the most complex and precise calculations” (NASA SP-350, p. 67).