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Space
Space
Science
Leonard David

Apollo 17 astronauts saw strange flashes on the moon. Will Artemis crews see them too?

The full moon hangs in frame with the orion, inside its payload shell atop the SLS rocket.

Specialists are now pulling together potential photography assignments for NASA's crewed Artemis 2 moon flyby, now projected to occur in September 2025. 

Tucked inside their Orion spacecraft, they will be hurled moonward by NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and travel roughly 4,600 miles (7,400 km) beyond the far side of the moon during the nearly 10 day voyage. To help them prepare for their journey, lunar scientists have started plotting out photographic nice-to-have "Kodak Moments" for the four-person Artemis 2 crew to consider during out-the-windows viewing.

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