Artemis II photographs were seen all over, after NASA released them in April 2026 at the end of the mission. Alan Taylor curates photography at The Atlantic and it’s always interesting. He did a page of Moon Joy: Photos From Artemis II on April 7, 2026.
From this Smithsonian article, NASA Just Uploaded More Than 12,000 Stunning Photos From the Artemis 2 Mission. Here Are a Few of Our Favorites, I found NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography The Artemis II Collection. It has all the photographs that were taken during the mission.
I’ve been a Nikon user since the mid-1970s, about the same time NASA started using them on the Apollo missions. Though most of the famous photographs taken on the surface of the moon were taken with Hasselblads, there were Nikon FTNs that were also used in the Apollo command modules for photography. (The Nikon Photomic FTN: A Camera for the Ultimate Shooting Environment — Space)
As a former photographer, an interesting thing about them is that the images from NASA still have the EXIF information embedded in the images. For the image of the earth at the top of this post, NASA Astronaut Christina Koch used a Nikon D5 and an AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 G ED VR lens.
