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

  • Written by Jennifer Levasseur, Curator of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
imageNASA astronaut Christina Koch gazes at Earth on April 2, 2026, taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max.NASA

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...

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