The next #ArtemisII Daily News Conference is coming up at the top of the hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZFM9ywOpl0 (and later we'll have - at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyUSFYrsKM - the first and only press conference with the crew).
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Back to the #ArtemisII launch exactly one week ago - here is a most remarkable Near-Infrared high-resolution video of it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SJ7aMoRa0wA (particularly clear because long wavelengths are less affected by seeing).
Artemis II Launch - Near Infrared tracking view

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In visible light - and color - the #ArtemisII launch in high resolution is also nice: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a1uvU8Y7h10
Artemis II Launch - long range tracking view

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The #ArtemisII Crew News Conference is underway at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkyUSFYrsKM is underway - looong delay between questions and answers.
NASA just dropped a hi-res image from the beginning of the eclipse #ArtemisII experienced at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55197506830/ - it's dominated by a broad corona streamer bundle sitting on top of the zodiacal light pyramid. (In https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-9-april-2026/#Apr09 I have rotated it so that it matches the SOHO LASCO C2 view which in https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164990866429808 is matched to the well-known eclipse end picture.) But south of the streamers sits something bright at the lunar limb that baffles me: what can be so bright - and even colorful - at this location when the Sun is already well behind the Moon? Is this astrophysics or rather selenophysics? Ideas?
Meanwhile in an hour on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7PBy4a78Ho the next daily #ArtemisII press conference with details about the Orion's return.
NASA’s Artemis II Daily News Conference (April 9, 2026)

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On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs you can now watch the Earth grow for #ArtemisII ... 3:45 till splash-down.
Separation of the ESM! #ArtemisII continues to deliver impressive visuals.
What a sad moment when the 24/7 #ArtemisII live stream was shut down at 2:20 UTC ...had it on almost, well, 24/7. ;-) Little consolation prize: the Artemis II Post-Splashdown News Conference in a few minutes on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2X1-FjDxg
NASA's Artemis II Post-Splashdown News Conference

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Going to the Moon and back apparently makes you … very happy: #ArtemisII astronauts Glover and Koch in the helicopter after landing on the USS John P. Murtha.
The #ArtemisII crew on the John P. Murtha with their Orion - on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY4nnfxKbU their arrival in Houston will be streamed from 20:00 UTC today!

Just noted interesting parallels between #ArtemisII and Apollo 11 and 12, involving #SolarEclipses, either by the close Moon or by the Earth: during or after each of the three missions the astronauts described these events as their visual highlights. The Artemis II crew has done this several times - and in the post-flight press conference after #Apollo11 Neil Armstrong did it, too, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz6nzutr7RU#t=42m19s in the segment from 42:20 (in the transcript https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED059051.pdf on PDF pages 21--22).

What he was describing is the eclipse just before arrival at the Moon of which I had re-processed the best image in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26 (and he is mistaking the zodiacal light they saw and photographed for the solar corona, the very same mistake made repeatedly during Artemis II).

Finally, a solar eclipse by the huge Earth observed from Apollo 12 just before splash-down was described by Alan Bean as "the most spectacular sight of the whole flight" while it happened: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2019/11/24/eine-fette-sofi-fur-apollo-12-durch-die-erde/ (no images of totality were taken but Bean later painted the view from memory). The reason I had looked up the Apollo 11 presser was to see how this famously well-prepared post-lunar mission presentation looked like and when it happened: 19 days after their return.

Artemis II Moon Mission Complete!

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Fresh off their return to Earth, the #ArtemisII astronauts will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss their historic mission around the Moon: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-host-artemis-ii-crew-postflight-news-conference/
NASA to Host Artemis II Crew Postflight News Conference - NASA

Fresh off their return to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in

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The saga of the zodiacal-light-behind-the-Moon from #ArtemisII in search of a fully correct #caption continues ... The #NASA text for image https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/55208682757/ published today finally does away with falsely claiming that this is the corona - good if shockingly late. But now it says: "The glow around the Moon is called zodiacal light, which describes interstellar dust that’s reflecting sunlight" - wrong again, it's interplanetary dust in our own solar system ...
Next attraction: a press conference by the #ArtemisII crew at 18:30 UTC today (Thursday; 19 hours from right now) on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_43Ei9eQVww
NASA's Artemis II News Conference with Moon Astronauts (April 16, 2026)

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