NASA’s Moon Mission is a Massive Media Failure, Inexplicably Feeds Conspiracy Theories
. . . NASA’s team of geniuses has been unable to find a way to send any decent cameras on the Artemis II mission. Or if they did, they weren’t used. The Astronauts had their iPhones with them, which was a good idea, so presumably they could have just pointed them out the window and then tweeted the result. If they did that, NASA chose not to highlight most of their pictures. You won’t see many astronaut selfies going viral.
Instead of an endless stream of cool videos and photos of our planet as Orion left, NASA has released THREE photos that their crew took of the Earth. . .
NASA will now mumble excuses about why they can’t get any good pictures, and then throw in some technical jargon about why the mission was important to science despite how boring it looked. They’ll say it matters because it sets up future missions. Doubtless, those missions will also be unable to do basic photography and social media marketing. . .
Later space footage of [Artemis II] separating was grainy and hard to make out. By the way, when SpaceX has done launches like this, their videos of the rocket are always pristine and beautiful. You see it all. Somehow, despite billions in tax dollars, that’s not something that can be accomplished by NASA.
When the mission arrived at the moon a few days later, we watched the flyby live feed, which largely consisted of two women sitting in front of the camera spinning word salad and occasionally explaining why we can’t see anything. When Orion came around the dark side of the moon and returned to contact with Earth, we still saw nothing. While looking at nothing, we had to sit through a crew member reading a boring, grandiose, pre-prepared speech. (Read more from “NASA’s Moon Mission is a Massive Media Failure, Inexplicably Feeds Conspiracy Theories” HERE)
