Two weeks after Artemis II completed its historic flyby around the moon, the personal and scientific insights from that historic day continue to be revealed.
Over the course of seven hours, NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency made detailed observations of the moon’s surface, yet the live stream, reflections, and published images account for only a fraction of the overall information that was collected and has yet to be released.
Approximately 175 gigabytes of images, audio recordings, and other data were brought back to Earth by April 10, via either the Orion spacecraft’s laser communication array or its physical splashdown and recovery in the Pacific Ocean….