Name the four people, living or not, whose bodies (or their ((even future)) substance) are known not to be within the frame of this photo.
Extra credit for a possible/likely fifth.
J
Monday, December 12, 2016
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Were this picture taken today, Eugene Shoemaker and Clyde Tombaugh might be included -- but they are in THIS picture.
it's not really fair to use wikipedia or infogalactic.
i have to say though, even then i think your question isn't phrased properly. i don't know EXACTLY the relative size of a normal ( non-LEO ) orbit, but my expectation would be that they would all be well within the viewing aperture of that particular portrait of Terra.
geosync orbits are pretty big, but i think even they would also be included in this picture. certainly, only a small sliver of the geosync orbit would be occulted by the Earth or the Moon.
therefore, Roddenberry, O'Neill, Leary and Ehricke would be nominally visible except for the lack of resolution in the photo.
but then, it's not like i can make out the other +6 billion people on the Earth's surface either.
according to wiki, none of the Lost In Space Cosmonaut stories have panned out so i'm not sure where you're getting a 5th pre-1999 space burial from.
I was probably talking about Enoch, and Elijah, and maybe Moses.
And it may be that there's a vast field *behind* and therefore *outside* the this visual field. In any case, my phrasing would have been correct.
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