{"id":64487,"date":"2026-04-14T23:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=64487"},"modified":"2026-05-04T23:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:45:38","slug":"mans-return-to-the-moon-an-8k-8-minute-cinematic-overview-of-artemis-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/14\/mans-return-to-the-moon-an-8k-8-minute-cinematic-overview-of-artemis-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s return to the Moon: an 8K, 8-minute cinematic overview of Artemis II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently witnessed a historic moment in the conquest of space: the Artemis II mission to the Moon.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/12\/photos-of-the-recovery-of-the-artemis-ii-mission-spacecraft-by-the-us-navy\/\">Photos of the recovery of the Artemis II mission spacecraft by the US Navy<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/09\/rise-the-tiny-fifth-astronaut-of-artemis-ii-and-his-mission-aboard-as-zgi\/\">Rise, the tiny fifth astronaut of Artemis II and his mission aboard as ZGI<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This mission is of remarkable importance, as <strong>it marked the return of man to the Moon<\/strong>, 54 years after the last Apollo mission in 1972, <strong>and the first journey of a woman to our natural satellite<\/strong>, a milestone achieved by NASA astronaut Christina Koch. <strong>This flight not only served as a prelude to the Artemis III mission, scheduled for mid-2027 and which will include a lunar landing<\/strong> (the first since Apollo 17), but also allowed us to contemplate the beauty of our planet, as shown in this cinematic summary published an hour ago by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@melodysheep\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melodysheep<\/a>, <strong>which features 8 minutes of 8K resolution footage captured by NASA during this mission:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ARTEMIS II:  A Visual Masterpiece.  8K Cinematic Supercut\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGxz4LQfRpo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see some of the images from this video here. Seeing them in motion is even more impressive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55208089844_e383f70203_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55208089844_4e6e09520e_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The SLS rocket<\/strong> during launch on April 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55207848421_02674f0d71_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55207848421_3f46d45a3f_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The solid rocket boosters (SRBs)<\/strong> during launch, each providing a thrust of up to 14.7 MN.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55207848401_f97350d380_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55207848401_19a27c6e5b_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the SRBs separating from the core stage.<\/strong> The SRBs are reusable for future missions, once recovered and repaired, but the core stage is single-use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55208240185_57f23f2e89_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55208240185_34b03fb5b4_z.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The moment of separation of the core stage and the Orion spacecraft.<\/strong> We see the larger AJ10 engine of the Orion spacecraft, and the eight smaller R-4D-11 engines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently witnessed a historic moment in the conquest of space: the Artemis II mission to the Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16878],"tags":[26606,26612,26610,651,1304,26607,22084],"class_list":["post-64487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-space","tag-artemis-ii","tag-artemis-program","tag-christina-koch","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-orion-mpcv","tag-sls-space-shuttle"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:04:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}