“Before going up into space, he asked his hometown to provide him with something to take into space. They gave him a DVD containing the photographs of every student at the city’s elementary and junior high schools. However, Wakata will be unable to see the faces of the children because they have been censored as a privacy protection measure.”

So stupid. So, so, so stupid. Awesomestupid. The article has a picture of the face-blurred images he took into space.