NASA releases 12,000 new Artemis II photos. Ken Kremer, Managing Editor of Space UpClose joins FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom [on May 5, 2026] to break down the breathtaking new photos from the Artemis II moon mission, showing the Earth, moon and the Artemis II crew from never-before-seen angles. Screenshot credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpclose.com/Fox 35 Orlando. Video: https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/fmc-7f1qx0fc80t149xbKENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – I was interviewed live on FOX 35 Orlando about NASAs new release of 12000 dazzling images from the recent history making mission of NASA Artemis II mission astronauts around the moon and back.
Featured here are some screenshots of a few of the images we discussed – and my impressions in the Fox 35 Orlando videos posted below.
NASA releases 12,000 new Artemis II photos. Ken Kremer, Managing Editor of Space UpClose joins FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom [on May 5, 2026] to break down the breathtaking new photos from the Artemis II moon mission, showing the Earth, moon and the Artemis II crew from never-before-seen angles. Screenshot credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpclose.com/Fox 35 Orlando. Video: https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/fmc-7f1qx0fc80t149xbKen Kremer, Managing Editor of Space UpClose joins FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom We break down the breathtaking new photos from the Artemis II moon mission, showing the Earth, moon and the Artemis II crew from never-before-seen angles.
NASA releases 12,000 new Artemis II photos. Ken Kremer, Managing Editor of Space UpClose joins FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom [on May 5, 2026] to break down the breathtaking new photos from the Artemis II moon mission, showing the Earth, moon and the Artemis II crew from never-before-seen angles. Screenshot credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpclose.com/Fox 35 Orlando. Video: https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/fmc-7f1qx0fc80t149xbWatch the complete live interview video here:
NASA releases 12,000 new Artemis II photos. Ken Kremer, Managing Editor of Space UpClose joins FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom [on May 5, 2026] to break down the breathtaking new photos from the Artemis II moon mission, showing the Earth, moon and the Artemis II crew from never-before-seen angles. Screenshot credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpclose.com/Fox 35 Orlando. Video: https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/fmc-7f1qx0fc80t149xbCaption: “NASA releases 12,000 new Artemis II photos. Ken Kremer, Managing Editor of Space UpClose joins FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom [on May 5, 2026] to break down the breathtaking new photos from the Artemis II moon mission, showing the Earth, moon and the Artemis II crew from never-before-seen angles.
The astronaut quartet began their exciting voyage with a very beautiful, extremely loud and bright late afternoon blastoff on April 1 on NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion Moon rocket propelled the Artemis II crew on NASA’s history making journey hurling the first humans to the Moon and back in more than 50 years – since NASA’s Apollo era.
The NASA SLS (Space Launch System) Moon rocket launches with the four person American and Canadian Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft at 6:35 p.m. EDT on April 1, 2026, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a 10-day lunar flyby mission – the first human mission to the Moon in over 50 years. Credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpClose.com
The international crew of three American and one Canadian astronauts lifted off atop NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket generating 8.8 million pounds of ear-splitting, extremely bright and roaring thrust from Launch Pad 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 1, sending four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft on a planned 10 day test flight and lunar flyby looping around the Moon and back – on a free return trajectory.
NASA releases 12,000 new Artemis II photos. Ken Kremer, Managing Editor of Space UpClose joins FOX 35’s Garrett Wymer live via Zoom [on May 5, 2026] to break down the breathtaking new photos from the Artemis II moon mission, showing the Earth, moon and the Artemis II crew from never-before-seen angles. Screenshot credit: Ken Kremer/SpaceUpclose.com/Fox 35 Orlando. Video: https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/fmc-7f1qx0fc80t149xbThe successful Artemis II launch was the beginning of an approximately 10-day mission for NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
All three NASA astronauts have flown long duration expeditions to the ISS (International Space Station). Hansen is the crews lone rookie
The Artemis II crew returned safely from their lunar slingshot journey on April 10 – with a splashdown in the Pacific inside their Orion capsule dubbed ‘Integrity’
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