Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, author of the new book"The Earth in Our Hands," prepares to photograph the planet from inside the Cupola on the International Space Station in September 2021.Flipping through his new book of more than 200 photographs of Earth, or, if you are determined, the more than 245,000 images he took during his second mission aboard the International Space Station, you get the sense that Thomas Pesquet thoroughly captured the planet.
I ended up needing NASA's help. Those guys were sometimes the ones stitching the pictures back together because we don't have the computing power up there on the space station, nor the software. But I think that's something that sets my photography apart.
So when we sat down and selected the pictures to create the book, we started from my Flickr account where the pictures are nicely sorted out and that was a huge help. For the few pictures that were missing or when we needed the highest resolution, then I wrote to the the imagery folks at Johnson Space Center in Houston and they were always so great, sending me back exactly what I wanted.
If you do those three things right, which we tried to do in the book, then I would say you're only missing 10 percent. But if you just click a picture out the window and then post it on social media without anything, it is going to be gray, the colors are going to be horrible and then you're missing at least 50 percent of what your eyes actually did see.
When I saw the pictures from the Artemis I mission behind the moon, with the capsule in the foreground and the moon a few dozen thousand kilometers underneath and then Earth like 384,000 kilometers behind it as a really tiny ball, I was thinking,"Wow, there's a good amount of risk involved." Because if something goes wrong, your navigation system better be working, your propulsion system better be working because you're not going to glide all the way back to the planet.
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