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, the international crew that hitched a ride back to Earth on a SpaceX Crew Dragon said during their first post-flight press conference that Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furakawa was embarrassed by a photography gaffe at one point during their stay.
"We were in Node 1, I think, having lunch or dinner, and Satoshi had been out in the Cupola taking pictures," the mission's commander, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, recounted. "He comes in and he's like, 'Well, you know, I'm very, very, very sorry. But you know, I took this picture.
"He had managed to take a picture of the tool bag as it was transiting Mount Fuji," Mogensen continued. "He had been trying to take a picture of Mount Fuji and ended up with a picture of the tool bag."reported at the time, the now-space junk fell into Earth's orbit and became bright enough to see from the ground.As Mogensen said in the more recent news conference, the accident of photographing the toolbag was a mistake that anyone aboard the ISS could have made.
"I found one of the big challenges was trying to take a photo of a spot that you want to photograph, and you try to time it out, you try to plan your day, and then you make your way to the Cupola or one of the other windows and you get set, you get ready and then it's just a little bit cloudy," said the commander, who was the first ESA astronaut ever to hold that position on the ISS.
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