[jmcenanly]

There is also the problem of reflections on the helmets. Although Stanley Kubrick took great care, occasionally, he would accidentally catch a reflection of the camera crew in the glass on the helmets.

on the Apollo missions, the sun visor was a gold-plated spherical mirror that caught everything that was in front of it. Here you can see Neil Armstrong, reflected in Aldrin's Visor, taking a picture of Aldrin.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Yes and there was also no way for Kubrick to do any real zero-gravity scenes, unlike in the movie Apollo 13 which used the Vomit Comet. Really the special effects in 2001 were very bad, and yet the videos from Apollo 11 hold up to scrutiny even today. It’s just ridiculous.