Reid Wiseman of Artemis II giving a heart symbol.

Reid Wiseman of Artemis II pointing a finger on a braclet.

"Copy heart, copy bracelet."

Screenshot of a Twitter exchange in which user @kimerrikin notes that the city of Lynchburg VA declared April 7 2008 to be Leland Melvin Day, and Leland Melvin (@Astro_Flow) thanking them for reminding him.

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

I wrote a letter like that to Reagan too ❤️

impact flash moonjoy pog, live science director Kelsey Young's reaction

The reaction of Dr Kelsey Young at the Science Desk was one of the best things in the feed but I'd also like to acknowledge the dude in the lower left corner of the control room view doing his own little dance of joy during Jeremy Hansen's discussion of his corona observations. #Artemis

Top four trending topics are all about Artemis II

Good app

So, the hose that the crew was just told to put under the window came about because of a miss in development. At some point in development, we lost track of the requirement to manage condensation on the windows. When we realized this, it was too late to make big changes to the design.

YES shout out to the metric system from Reid Wiseman 📏

Artemis II scientists are excited for the flyby YouTube video by nature video

Wanna see some extremely excited space nerds?

Reporter @alexwitze.bsky.social has been reporting from #ArtemisII Mission Control and interviewing all the lunar scientists! Very cool.

As part of the flyby, crew will lose comm with Earth for ~45 minutes. If they were to emerge from the pass and never regain comm with Earth, we have a protocol for that - called Permanent Communications Loss - that enables the crew to being able to return to Earth without any communications.

nutella free in space on artemis orion

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

Reid Wiseman on #Artemis II: "We have Earth out window 4 and Moon out window 3... the Moon is about 3-4 times the size of the Earth and it is almost full, and the Earth is just a small crescent out there... it's magnificent... such a majestic view out here"

Mission Control: "Amaze, amaze, amaze!"

Artemis II astronauts fly by the Moon today: follow along with Nature live Humans are seeing parts of the Moon’s far side never observed by eye. Nature is in Houston with the mission’s scientists.

LIVE: Artemis astronauts set record for distance travelled from Earth by humans

Alexandra Witze is in Houston, follow our live blog for updates of the Moon fly-by 🌔

go.nature.com/41VFR3n

Canadian flags everywhere in space yo

🍁🍁🍁😁

Follow along with us at @nature.com as we bring you today’s #ArtemisII lunar flyby - straight from mission scientists at Mission Control in Houston. I’ll have live updates throughout the day on this historic Moon mission. 🧪🔭

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

WOW

Image Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

‘NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft's window on April 2, 2026, after completing the translunar injection burn.’

Actually I think it's Hansen's hand maybe

Screenshot of livestream around 11:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

Tickled me someone that one of the astronauts (I assume Koch) is just in there snapping pics of cool stuff on a phone

The science of Artemis II YouTube video by nature video

I am biased but this is the greatest and possibly only Artemis II video you need 🌝 www.youtube.com/shorts/Tc2vN...

Porridge

Final course is breakfast! Oatmeal, with maple syrup (OF COURSE) and tonnes of seeds just like Jeremy. No lavender tho! 🌝

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It's good to be reminded these days that science, and scientists, still fucking rule. 🚀

guys this is so nice :') I love that we're all online watching a thing that's good instead of bad :')

This was the shot.

Time to remember one of the best days of my life (sorry kids)

Unfortunately not cause I don’t live in a Canadian airport 😂

Solved tonight’s meal planning, anyway 😆

Curry in a wok

Main course nominal! L-2 hrs, shrimp curry 🌚