One or more of the astronauts has some good style and technique behind the lens!
The shots of the moon and earth are just mind-blowing of course, but I thought it was also really cool to see some moody dark but well exposed shots of the cabin, I don't think I've ever seen that perspective of a space mission before. Bravo.
WE ARE SO SMALL
Clip from a conspiracy theorist who believes it's the crew.
I wanted to create a site for the Artemis image archive that feels closer to modern gallery/search experiences while still preserving the huge number of images NASA published after the mission ended.
Right now, the site already has basic search and browsing, but I’m working on a much faster and smarter visual search system. The goal is to make it feel less like searching filenames or captions and more like searching the actual contents of the images, more like googling or talking to an LLM.
Everything is processed locally on an rtx 5090, and then hosted using SQlite this means no llms or vision models run on any backend or on your device while still being able to search as if there is an llm orchastrating the search for you, the final site is meant to stay fast and easy to browse.
the link is artemispics.com
I'm a Science teacher and have followed the Artemis mission like my life depended on it. I would LOVE to get a poster of Christina Koch's braid selfie for my classroom....but have a hard time giving my money to people who are profiting off of the photo with no true ownership of it. I haven't seen any versions of the photo with NASA's other merchandise. Does anyone know of posters out there from an authenic source of some kind? I'd even buy it from someone who was donating to a worthy cause, such as promoting STEM in school, but not from a random person using the image for their own profit.
Belated follow-up from last week’s media appearances…what are some of your favorite quotes or takeaways from the Artemis II crew so far? Here are a few that I thought really stood out:
Find joy
You are enough
Start with a pebble and do not lose the scope
Be curious and be a lifelong learner
Use your energy for good
Find the thing that you love doing
Looking at the Lunar LEM... I simply wonder why we need a boondoggle like the vertically challenged SpaceX lander or the equally massive Blue Origin one.
Now that Artemis II has shown the competency and ability of good old methods to deliver I wonder if NASA could also focus on a plan B in case the hyper ambitious vaporware peddled by the 2 private firms doesn't materialize.
2 SLS launches could each send Orion and the Lander into translunar injection and do the trick.
Easier than 20+ refueling launches for SpaceX or something not even started to be build by BO.
SpaceX also just had a deadly workplace accident LAST FRIDAY and no one there talks about it because it's an opaque private firm that will fire anyone who doesn't respect the NDA and is constrained by brutal arbitration clause.
We might expect the same lack of transparency when people die on the Moon and simply are forgotten/disappear?
Footage credit: NASA (https://images-assets.nasa.gov/video/art002m1200912311/art002m1200912311\~orig.mp4)
I keep reading about how much refueling will be necessary for HLS to land on the Moon and I’m assuming that Blue Moon will have similar issues.
Why do we need such a big lander? Look, I get that we’re going for something bigger than the Apollo LM but there’s a massive size difference between the two proposed landers and the LM. Why hasn’t a middle ground been proposed?
The twelfth Starship flight test comes amid reports that SpaceX could file its IPO prospectus as soon as this week ahead of an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in June. Can they proceed with its blockbuster initial public offering even if the 12th Starship test fails?
I heard a House committee, I think the House Committee on Appropriations, released a proposed fiscal year 2027 for NASA that didn’t include the Exploration Upper Stage or the Lunar Gateway. But I can’t find the proposal. So is this claim true, and if so, could you help me find it? And is Congress allowing for the Gateway and EUS to be cancelled (or for Gateway, ‘paused’)?
I made this 6 panel tiled scene of the earthset picture! It took over a week of solid sewing. I was inspired by seeing someone do a similar thing with 3d printing and I was like ooh i bet i could do that with thread. Not sure if I want to incorporate it into a bigger project or just maybe hang it on the wall.
Hello all, I'm a first time poster, long time lurker. I didn't know where else to ask this so I hope it's okay to ask here? I included all the information I could find from NASA.
Postmark from an old letter mailed from #ksc #nasa
