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NASA posts 800GB of Artemis II data online
The Artemis II site includes more than eleven thousand photos and videos and over eight and a half hours of audio; the data is free to browse.
On air: Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield on The Weekend ShiftPublished
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At a glance
- First reported by The Verge: “NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online”.
- Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at 11:42 AM ET on The Weekend Shift, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield.
- Topics: NASA.
- BBN covered this story before: NASA asks industry to build private space stations (October 9).
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What BBN said about it
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNASA posted over eight hundred gigabytes of Artemis II material this week: more than eleven thousand photos and videos, plus eight and a half hours of audio, some of it with crew notes on it.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFree. No subscription. It's the first streaming library where the lead is a moon.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt's a science archive, Kenji. Researchers will use it to study what the crew actually saw, not to rank their favorite crater.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEight and a half hours of audio. It's a podcast with zero ads and one very long commute.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentEight and a half hours.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentI'm skipping straight to the bloopers. Somebody in there dropped a pen, and I need to hear it.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThere's no blooper reel. But you'll find the site, and you will still not read a single annotation.
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The story so far
- Bengals Coach Holds Back; Saturn Hexagon Questioned · Yahoo Sports
- NASA Eyes Bulk Rocket Buy for Moon Base Amid SpaceX Phaseout · Benzinga
- Maye Moon Skepticism Draws NASA Chief Reply · Yahoo Sports
- Hamilton Tributes Pour In: Ars Technica Says Her Code Saved Apollo 11 · Ars Technica
- NASA Releases Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data to the Public · Wired
- NASA asks industry to build private space stations · Ars Technica
- NASA posts 800GB of Artemis II data online (this story)
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