NASA Uploads More Than 12,000 Nasa Artemis Ii Photos
NASA quietly uploaded more than 12,000 nasa artemis ii photos to its public archive this weekend, adding a large new set of images from the crew’s 10-day trip around the moon. The photos were taken from inside the Orion crew capsule by astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
The archive now includes views from the crew’s first day in Earth orbit, the lunar flyby and the return leg. NASA’s description of the Orion window shots asked, “Who’s that looking in through the Orion capsule window? Oh, just every human being in existence (well … minus the few on the International Space Station at the time).”
April 6 at Orion
The crew flew within 4,067 miles, or 6,545 kilometers, of the lunar surface on April 6 during the flyby. In April, the mission included a 10-day trip around the far side of the moon and back, with the astronauts also witnessing a rare total solar eclipse from space while flying around the far side.
After 40 minutes in silence and darkness, the crew reemerged from behind the moon. The image set also includes Milky Way photos taken on the way to and from the moon.
NASA Public Archive
The release adds to NASA’s public archive of astronaut photography, where some Artemis II images had already appeared, including views of the moon’s far side during the eclipse and Earth disappearing behind the lunar horizon. This weekend’s upload gives the public a much larger visual record of what the crew saw from inside Orion.
For readers following the mission, the practical change is simple: there are now thousands more images to sort through, including shots taken by Wiseman, Koch, Glover and Hansen from the capsule window during one of the mission’s most closely watched stretches.
