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NASA's 322-foot-tall Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center on April 01, 2026 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Jaw-dropping slo-mo video of Artemis II launch captured with Nikon ZR and a borrowed US$16,000 lens!

By Mike Harris Published

News An impromptu moment landed Jared Sanders with a US$16,000 Nikon lens and the world’s most eligible subject matter, NASA’s Artemis II rocket launch

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An illustration of what the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope could look like in space
Hubble would have taken a century to do what NASA’s next telescope can do in a month. The 300MP Roman Telescope is nearly ready for launch

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

SPACE NASA has completed assembly and testing on the 300-megapixel Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, so a launch could come as soon as September

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This 35mm frame represents one of the more spectacular views of Aurora Australis, photographed by the Space Shuttle Endeavour during the eight-day Spacelab-J mission.
A space photo inspired the first Earth Day. I can't stop looking at these iconic images of Earth that span from 35mm film to DSLRs

By Hillary K. Grigonis Last updated

EARTH DAY A photo from 1968 inspired the first Earth Day, but that's not the only iconic space photo of Earth that everyone should see

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Canadian Space Agency astronaut and Artemis II Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen is seen taking images through the Orion spacecraft window with Nikon D5
I believe NASA sending Nikon’s D5 into space conclusively proves that DSLRs are not dead!

By Gavin Stoker Published

opinion The most amazing images you’ve seen from the recent Artemis II Moon mission were shot on a 10-year-old Nikon D5. So can we stop the mirrorless versus DSLR squabbling now, asks Gavin Stoker

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NASA Artemis II crew members are hoisted into a U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter after successfully splashing down in the Pacific Ocean following their 10-day mission around the Moon.
“The splashdown of a lifetime.” Viral video reveals how photographers captured the Artemis II splashdown in the middle of the ocean

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

ARTEMIS NASA has shared a now-viral video of how photographers managed to capture the Artemis II splashdown in the Pacific Ocean

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Mission Specialist Christina Koch looks out the window of Orion back to Earth
This clip of an astronaut chasing a memory card in space is hilarious… but it also makes me think seriously about storage

By Tom May Published

ARTEMIS II Most of us never think seriously about what our memory cards go through. A viral clip from NASA's lunar mission changed all that.

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Image of spiral galaxy captured by Hubble Space Telescope.
Hubble captures images of an “ethereal” spiral galaxy located 380 million light-years from Earth

By Alan Palazon Published

SPACE IC 486, a barred spiral galaxy, lies at the edge of the constellation Gemini an inconceivable 380 million light-years from Earth

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FD07_FD6 Lunar flyby imagry - D5 short lens 1022 Koch, wiseman, glover -wrong SN these are Z9
The Artemis II mission isn’t just science. Viral photos and videos from the Moon mission are proof of the power of a photograph

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

OPINION The viral photos from Artemis II highlight the power of photographs and videos to create connection, no matter the distance

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The upper half of the moon, partially lit, with a small crescent-shaped Earth in the background
One Moon, 32 cameras, 10,000 photos – as a photographer, I’m awed by the Artemis II photo album. These are the best ones so far

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

ARTEMIS Artemis II took 10,000 photos during the Moon flyby. As a photographer, I think these are the most epic images from Artemis II so far

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art002e013365 (April 7, 2026) – The Artemis II crew – (clockwise from left) Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Pilot Victor Glover – pause for a group photo with their zero gravity indicator "Rise," inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home. Following a swing around the far side of the Moon on April 6, 2026, the crew exited the lunar sphere of influence (the point at which the Moon's gravity has a stronger pull on Orion than the Earth's) on April 7, and are headed back to Earth for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on April 10.
Viral photos being used to claim Artemis II footage is fake are actually AI fakes themselves. Oh, the irony!

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

ARTEMIS Viral photos showing the Artemis II astronauts in front of a green screen were created by Google Gemini, an analysis shows

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