US EditionArtemis II Crew Used Modern Photography to Tell the Story of Their Lunar Journey—and Update some Classic Apollo Images
The images include close-ups of lunar craters, Earth’s city lights and aurora, and a solar-eclipse view with Saturn visible, NASA said.
- NASA released high-resolution images from the Artemis II mission on April 6, capturing detailed views of the Moon, Earth, and the Milky Way galaxy during the crew's seven-hour lunar flyby.
- The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1, carrying NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch alongside Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day voyage around the Moon.
- Fifty percent larger than the Apollo command module, the Orion spacecraft captured the 600-mile-wide Orientale basin and Saturn appearing near the Moon's edge during a solar eclipse on day six.
- The crew successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, on Friday, April 10, completing the 10-day voyage and returning with unprecedented photographic data from the lunar mission.
- Captured with advanced digital imaging equipment, the photographs provide unprecedented perspectives of lunar geography and Earth's atmosphere, positioning the Orion mission as a milestone in NASA's exploration efforts.
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Out-of-this-world photos snapped on the Artemis II mission
The astronauts captured the stunning cosmic shots during their lunar flyby on April 6.
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Artemis II crew used modern photography to tell the story of their lunar journey—and update some classic Apollo images
At this point in NASA's human spaceflight story, researchers have a substantial amount of material—documents, artifacts and images—with which to tell the stories of past flights to space. But with NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon now in the books, we're getting a refreshed look at space.
NASA Artemis II Mission: Moments Around the Moon
NASA Artemis II Mission: Moments Around the Moon | Johnson Space CenterKey moments from the Artemis II Mission capturing the astronauts’ journey . . .The first crewed test flight of NASA’s Artemis program lifted off from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT April 1, 2026, carrying the first astronauts to travel to the Moon in more than half a century. During their nearly 10-day mission, the crew complet…
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