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NASA posts 800GB of Artemis II photos, video and audio online

The archive includes 11,000 photos and videos plus eight and a half hours of audio with crew annotations; most is raw science data requiring substantial storage capacity.

On air: Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield on BBN Overnight
Published 1:10 AM ET, Monday, October 12, 2026

Photo: NASA HQ PHOTO · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Photo: Artemis II — Photo: NASA HQ PHOTO · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

At a glance

First reported by The Verge: “NASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online”.
Covered on BBN on Monday, October 12, 2026, at 1:10 AM ET on BBN Overnight, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield; aired 3 times.
Topics: NASA.
BBN covered this story before: NASA asks industry to build private space stations (October 9).

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The VergeNASA dumped over 800GB of Artemis II data online

What BBN said about it

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNASA posted more than eight hundred gigabytes of Artemis II material online this week.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThat includes eleven thousand photos and videos, eight and a half hours of audio, and annotations the crew added to some of the material.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEleven thousand photos of space, free, and it's one in the morning Eastern. I'm basically being invited to stay up.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt's a data archive, Kenji, not a slideshow.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentMost of it is raw science material, and a phone with a nearly full memory will choke on it before the first photo loads.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMine's at four percent storage. I'll delete everything else.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIncluding the thing that wrote this script, I hope. It's the only free thing in tech right now, and I'm still suspicious of it.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEight hours of audio?
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe astronauts did homework nobody asked for, and you're the one person who might actually read it.

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