All the Apollo lunar missions included the CSM orbiting the Moon. NASA even has published data on the average orbit durations.
Why, then, is the voluminous commentary constantly asserting that the Artemis II astronauts are the first humans to see the far side?
I suppose I could access some of the telephone-book size Preliminary Science Reports (especially for 15, 16, and 17, the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) Apollo missions) and look for photos from the CSM of features on the far side.
Is the point that the CSM orbits were much closer to the lunar surface, and thus no one has previously seen the whole "disk" of the far side?
Perhaps a seemingly trivial criticism, but unless there was something unusual about the CSM orbits, all the Apollo astronauts did see the far side at least in part, didn't they? Including the LM crew, before and after their descent to and ascent from the surface - correct?