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'Howl at the moon': NASA's bid to boost space enthusiasm

From social media posts clipped from livestreamed events with the astronauts to an extraordinary portfolio of photos, viewers caught an eyeful of Artemis II.

By The Japan Times

• April 11, 2026 at 5:13 AM

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Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum on Friday
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When NASA flight director Zebulon Scoville was working a shift during the uncrewed Artemis I test flight, he realized the U.S
space agency wasn't consistently livestreaming the spacecraft's journey to Earth."They said, well, we don't have bandwidth, we've got to get all this vehicle and engineering data down," Scoville recalled
"I was like — wrong.""This program will be over if people don't buy it and they don't come with us."
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