Planning your photo ops for a trip around the moon

The Artemis II crew took photos of the far side of the moon with handheld cameras. A science team on Earth had plenty of requests.

In April, the crew of Artemis II got an unprecedented tour of the far side of the moon, and they brought back a proverbial shoebox full of pictures. Lunar scientist Kelsey Young stayed on Earth, and helped guide the astronauts through their photo shoots from Mission Control.

Young talks with Host Flora Lichtman about how the science team chose their shot list, how to lead distant astronauts in their scientific observations, and what researchers are learning from the images and in-the-moment descriptions captured by the Artemis II crew.

Guest: 

Dr. Kelsey Young is the Artemis science flight operations lead for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

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