A Look Back at Artemis II’s Historic Lunar Flyby

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A Look Back at Artemis II’s Historic Lunar Flyby
NASA’s Orion spacecraft captures the Moon and the Earth in one frame during the Artemis II crew’s deep space journey at 6:39 p.m. ET on April 6, 2026. Courtesy of NASA
T.J. Muscaro
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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.

T.J. Muscaro
T.J. Muscaro
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T.J. Muscaro is an award-winning reporter and NASA Correspondent for The Epoch Times, covering the Artemis program, Space Force, and other public and private ambitions within the growing space industry. Based in Tampa, Florida, he also covers stories of extreme weather and disaster relief, as well as various matters of national and international politics.