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Days later, it’s still hard to wrap my mind around the fact that I got to witness this. So incredibly grateful to be able to document history.

Artemis II just hit the "two thirds" mark of the journey to the Moon. During Flight Day 4, the astronauts aboard Orion went over plans to study the Moon during their upcoming lunar flyby and are currently practicing manually controlling the spacecraft.

This footage of the Apollo 15 launch is worth a thousand words. It’s truly amazing!

Remote cameras belonging to NASA, partners & media click away as Artemis II heads into space shortly before sunset April 1. It was a beautiful launch! Photo: United Launch Alliance

For those curious about how the Artemis II crew is sharing photos on social media during their journey, Reid said the following during his February 20 weekly update: “…all four astronauts will hand their social media over to our respective agencies… so while we’re up there, our social media coordinator for the astronaut office, Camille, will be posting… so we will write the content, we’ll give her the ideas, we’ll send pictures down while we’re on our way out to the Moon and back, and then she’ll do the posting on the various platforms… it’s us posting, but not directly, because we will not have internet connection while we’re out there on the Deep Space Network.” instagram.com/reel/DU_whd5Dp…

@MarcMS2000 Gotta go back to Word (stupid 280-character limit)

Oh my gosh. Sir. SIR! I'm just an idiot with an opinion! I listen to people who know more than me and have been cast out of most of liberal media and friends for having some honest objections. All because they didn't want to see decline of NASA's status as THE Space Program by warning them about themselves. That is all. Thank you for coming to my TedX. Please don't hurt me. 🙏🥺

This is, by far, my favorite non-serious moment from the Apollo landings. I honestly can't wait to see what shenanigans happen on the Artemis landings and during base ops

Day launches truly cannot be beaten

@MarcMS2000 I apologize for this being a bit ranty, but I wanted to properly write out my thoughts as a response to this (hence why I had to transfer it to Word lol)

@AstroMatt11 Honestly given NASA's track record in the last 20 years I'd say we'll be lucky if we do it without any help from SPACE X again. 😕

There are no words.

@Lachlan_Wall01 Happy birthday!!

Happy Birthday to me.

SLS Spittin' Bricks: the original shot from a Nikon D500, the edited composition and when I looked at it full screen I noticed debris. Finally, a crop close to the camera's ability to resolve, showing bricks and stuff yeeting right then. @MaxQApp

Rise

Artemis II: To the Moon If you look closely at the bottom of the frame you’ll notice debris being kicked up.

i love humanity i love my brothers and sisters there are plenty of bad apples but i’m happy i share this rock in space with you guys :)

A busy week on the Space Coast, doesn’t get better than this

NASA's camera at The Gantry at LC-39 captured awe-inspiring footage of the Artemis II launch on April 1, 2026. 🚀👀

Inject this future-cozy aesthetic directly into my veins.

They see this beautiful blue ball and are like "wow, let's keep all of the industry that requires you to tear up biospheres to work down here and not in space above it where it can't hurt the biospheres."

@Gsantana2k That is a very, very close second of course. Pete Conrad (and the Apollo 12 crew in general) are just something else.

@AstroMatt11 My favorite non serious moments from the Apollo missions youtu.be/E_ZxgzENjlE?si…

Let's put aside the fact that this is on Sky and thus is being broadcast via a satellite. In space. The modern environmentalist movement was largely jumpstarted by the iconic Earthrise photo. That, in a nutshell, is why we go to space. Because *we* are alive.