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The segment that first drew my attention to things being weird about the press conference was when they were asked how the stars looked from the moon. They all look back and forth at each other and then agree they don’t remember seeing the stars at all (or something along that line).
That surprised me and I wondered how that could be.
Has any astronaut mentioned seeing the stars from orbit or beyond Earth?
Yes. Also the absence of atmosphere would also help see the stars in a way you couldn’t easily see here on Earth.
Yes, cameras do have a limited contrast range (f-stops) than a human eye which explains why a camera can’t pick up both a proper exposure of the moon surface and the stars. Even so, the brightest stars will still show up as tiny points of light.
That doesn’t explain why astronauts between the earth and moon or on the moon surface itself, without atmospheric haze or interference, didn’t see any stars at all. Just looking up and away from the surface into a empty sky without clouds or atmosphere would be enough to see starlight in a way that should be startlingly amazing.
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The camera can’t expose for both the brightness of the Earth and the sky at the same time. Camera’s contrast range is a lot smaller than human eyes. But anyone on the ISS should be able to look in a direction away from the Earth and see the entire field of stars as easily (or better) than I have here on Earth from a darkness preserve. I’ve seen with my own eyes, from on Earth, the fog/cloud of the Milky Way along with two Chinese students. They were so overwhelmed they were shaking.