On April 6, 2026, four astronauts flew around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. This is NASA’s official broadcast of the Artemis II lunar flyby: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard Orion, past the lunar far side, farther from Earth than any crew since Apollo, and, in the mission’s strangest scheduled moment, witnesses to a total solar eclipse visible from nowhere on Earth.
The broadcast is long, and its length is the point. Crewed spaceflight is mostly waiting, punctuated by procedures, and NASA’s coverage respects that rhythm while the crew does science in real time: high-resolution photography of the far side, naked-eye observations of features no human had seen directly, and the observational narration that this month became public property. NASA’s release of the mission archive (more than 800 gigabytes, 11,000 images and 8.5 hours of crew audio) is covered by our Science desk in “800 Gigabytes of Moonlight: Artemis II Opens Its Archive”.
Watch for the far-side pass and the crew’s own descriptions of the surface, the moments where trained eyes notice what cameras merely record. That difference is the mission’s scientific signature and the reason the archive will be mined for decades.
Video: NASA (official channel), embedded with credit. Newsmanship does not download or re-upload agency footage.
