[LanceH]

This has to be the most poorly documented event of this scale.

This link, for example, "first glimpse of far side...[video]", is a video of the crew inside the craft. yawn It seems like every article I've read is like this. Like they're trying to encourage conspiracy theories.

We're talking about the unseen, far side of the moon, and they can't scrape together at least a still image of it?

The launch was in lower resolution than many shuttle launches I've watched.

Looking at the NASA.gov site, it is pale comparison of what it used to be. They seem to have opted for a few well polished articles and images, and they've jettisoned any semblance of passing along the data itself.

[verisimi]

No video of earth either, just a very promoted new image (taken on old cameras). And then the conversation is about the amazing emotions they feel. And all four of them are just chatting, no need for anyone to be monitoring anything.