For some reason, some people think if you don't have the gold visor down, you'd be immediately blinded. Dunno why they think that. The visor is just basically big sunglasses, not some life-or-death thing.
This is Apollo 17, and the astronaut shown is Dr. Jack Schmitt. Unfortunately he scratched his gold visor part-way through the mission and so spent a lot of time with it up because he couldn't see very well through the scratches.
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