I wish countries were taken seriously by big G-8 nations based on, say, how much space exploration they did rather than how many nuclear weapons they have (the nuclear club).
Where is a picture or some other direct or indirect evidence. Not only does it help prove that you did it but it's great for all the inevitable media coverage. NASA has seemed to have learned this over they years; they always come up with some graphic or image for their big releases.
yeh, "the orbiter has to come back around to this side of the moon before we can get a transmission of the recorded event" was the answer i got in my research of it.
