GoKawiilThe astronauts flying aboard the Artemis II mission to the Moon last month took a lot of pictures, and a few dozen of the best ones were released during and shortly afterward the flight.
But it wasn’t until last weekend that NASA released the whole trove of more than 12,000 images, dumping them onto the Gateway to Astronaut Photography. The astronauts used three different cameras on the mission: a Nikon D5, a Nikon Z9, and an iPhone 17s. There are some hits and misses in the archive, plus some new gems.
One of the early highlights during the mission was the “Hello, world” image captured by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as the Orion spacecraft left Earth on its outbound journey toward the Moon.
In the newly released archive, there are dozens more images from this sequence. On Wednesday, Andy Saunders—known for processing a trove of Gemini and Apollo images into gorgeous books—shared a composite of these images that he processed and animated into a stunning new visual.