For a blissful 10 days, the biggest stories in my feeds were not politics or natural disasters, but iconic photographs of the Earth, craters named Carroll, and broken toilets 252,756 miles from the nearest plumber. The Artemis II mission took humans the farthest from Earth in history, and, thanks to the power of photographs and videos, the world was able to watch.
I’m enamoured with the photographs that Artemis II captured between the April 1 launch and the safe splashdown on April 10. Of course, Artemis II isn’t The World’s Most Expensive Photography Trip – it was a scientific expedition that will answer key questions on the health of astronauts beyond low Earth orbit, the geology and history of the Moon, a test run for key space tech, and other research.
