Artemis II’s 4 astronauts are at present on Day 7 of their 10-day mission to the moon. On Day 6, Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialists Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch set a file for the farthest distance traveled from Earth.
However earlier than they blasted off into area, again in April 2025, the astronauts took half in an “astronaut movie college” via Nat Geo’s collaboration with NASA on Artemis II. Nat Geo photograph and video editors visited the astronauts on a Houston-based Orion mockup to show them about the best way to finest movie their mission with Nat Geo cameras, audio and different tech.
We obtained a behind-the-scenes take a look at that astronaut movie college.
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That is a part of NASA and Nationwide Geographic’s Space Act Agreement, below which they collaborated on compact, light-weight audiovisual {hardware} to be used inside Orion.
The next clips are only a style. Nat Geo will quickly launch a documentary particular that goes in higher depth. Within the meantime, you possibly can study extra about how the astronauts will relaxation (spoiler: one will sleep like a bat):
Even coming into the spacecraft requires further consideration:
Whereas the bathroom, or “hygiene bay,” is within the flooring of the vessel, Mission Specialist Christina Koch says you would not understand it when you’re in there. Nonetheless, the astronauts do have to make use of handholds and, surprisingly, listening to safety as a result of the bathroom is so loud:
Astronauts must get of their exercises, too. The flywheel train gadget can be utilized with a handheld bar connected to a strap or a harness, and because of zero gravity, whoever is exercising can be doing so towards the craft’s docking tunnel. Because it’s over the bathroom, somebody could possibly be utilizing the lavatory whereas a fellow astronaut works out above them.
Although Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen are greater than midway via their mission, we’re nonetheless secretly hoping for a visible displaying what it appears like when a human can sleep the wrong way up, bat-style.
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