The four astronauts — NASA commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — spent Monday’s seven-hour lunar flyby taking photos and making observations from the Orion spacecraft, which they named Integrity.

Space missions have always depended on specialized cameras, but Artemis II added something unexpected to the mix. Astronauts used iPhone 17 Pro Max devices to capture images during the mission’s journey around the Moon

Thanks to the internet and social media, which allow people to access images at a greater speed and volume than ever before, photographs from the Artemis II crew became almost instantly iconic.

Over seven hours, the astronauts took thousands of photos that will help inform scientists’ understanding of the moon. The first ones have now been released.

The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA's Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions no human has seen before.

More breathtaking images released over the weekend from NASA's Artemis II mission show both the moon and Earth in all its cosmic glory. Take a look.

Artemis II Astronauts Are Using iPhones to Capture Stunning Space Images

The astronauts of the Artemis II mission captured several stunning photographs of the moon, but some posts online shared fake images instead.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down at 5:07 p.m. PDT Friday off the coast of San Diego, completing a nearly 10-day journey that took them 252,