re: Some missing shots
Pretty pictures for the public just wasn't on the radar for most people at NASA. While Apollo 11 did at least have a camera, it was low quality B&W. That wasn't because it was technically impossible to send a decent color camera, NASA just hadn't given it any thought. The networks were horrified, and according to Chaikin, one or more of the networks (CBS? Maybe it was RCA?) did some quick work and built a lightweight color camera that they gave to NASA and that was used on later missions.