Yes! NASA's photography is (amazingly enough) released into the public domain for you to do whatever you'd like with — as long as you don't imply endorsement. But remember: many pictures of launches or of objects in the sky are taken by private professional photographers, so just because something is a space thing doesn't mean it's in the public domain.

It actually keeps going a little bit, but I wanted to keep it to the timeline of the mission itself.

I don't know! Some of the photos were marked in the metadata or on Flickr as having a particular photographer, but most were just labeled as "Artemis Crew."

A previous version of this site showed some data on which astronaut took which photo, but it was brought to my attention that the four astronauts together agreed that they did not want credit for any photos taken on the mission. I'm somewhat conflicted about this because this project is about giving as much context as possible, but of course there is also something very beautiful about not wanting to take individual credit for something that was the result of so much collaboration.

If you just want to see photographs taken by the crew — rather than photos taken on the ground or robotically — you can click that button.

There were three professional Nikon cameras onboard: two D5s and a Z9. They're great in low light and have a bunch of swappable lenses. The GoPros were on the exterior of the spacecraft, and some photos were just taken with an iPhone!

In fact, many cameras! The spacecraft exterior had 3 color cameras and 1 black-and-white camera based on Pixelink industrial cameras (the B&W one was used for backup navigation), plus GoPro HERO4 Black cameras mounted on the solar array wings for those spectacular selfie shots. Inside the crew cabin there were also 3 mounted GoPros (behind the crew seats, looking out the hatch window, and looking out the pilot window), 2 more mounted GoPros looking at the crew in their seats, 5 handheld GoPros for crew use, a slow-motion camera looking out the hatch, a docking camera, and of course the crew's iPhones.

Weirdly, several places! The Johnson Space Center Flickr had the bulk of them, while the NASA HQ Photo Flickr had some launch and splashdown images. NASA's Artemis II media page had yet others, and various videos were pulled from social media. The ground-based time-lapses of Artemis II streaking through the stars were provided by Scott Ferguson, PhD of Astronomy Live.

NASA's Artemis Audio page and recordings from the mission livestreams.

It's a manual process, but yes — I'm keeping it current!

I'm Hank Green, I make science content! I just got obsessed with these photos and wanted to make a thing.

Claude Code with Opus 4.6. JPL Horizons API for flight data. Flickr API for pulling image descriptions.

No!

Email me at hankandjohn@gmail.com, or open an issue or pull request on the GitHub repo — the whole project is open source!