Artemis II crew used modern photography to tell the visual story of their lunar journey – and update some classic Apollo images

A space historian explains how the Artemis II crew reimagined some Apollo-era photos and found spectacular new angles.

By: Jennifer Levasseur, Smithsonian Institution, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: April 11, 2026

Words: 1,134

Last Updated: 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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By Jennifer Levasseur, Smithsonian Institution

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.

And the digital photographs transmitted back to Earth – even mid-mission – tell a modern story …

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