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To clarify, they were transearth EVAs, so they were not even during orbit around the moon. I recall seeing some upscaled videos on youtube of this which looked pretty unearthly.

https://www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-30_Extravehic...

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Also, in the article linked below, Al Worden described his transearth EVA on Apollo 15 in which he could see both the entirety of the earth and moon simultaneously in his field of vision (the only person to do so in history?). He regrets not having a camera, but he later had an artist recreate the memorable view of the moon behind Jim Irwin (included in the article).

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/i-was...

Reminds me of Collins on Gemini 10. He did an EVA from further from Earth than anyone had ever been before. He took pictures of the Gemini capsule with Earth in the background. And then his camera fell off and drifted until space.

links to some vids:

https://www.drewexmachina.com/2017/12/17/a-history-of-deep-s...

I found one upscaled and interpolated to 24fps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI4ou1PpFH0

That's soooo cool. I love the audio "This is what it means to be a spaceman! Ok, back to work." Cowboys. Highly educated and extensively trained cowboys, but still cowboys and little kids.

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