Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?

If you followed along with the recent joyful celebrations of the Artemis cruise around the moon, and took a moment to dive into the photographic archives of the mission, you might have noticed that all of the original images were shared by NASA on the venerable photo sharing service Flickr. What you might not know is… why? Here’s the TL;DR: Flickr comes from (and helped start!) the Web 2.0 era, which was based on users having control over their data Tools at that time began giving creators the power to decide what license they wanted to release their content under, including permissions about how it could be shared, used, or remixed Because the people who made platforms back then were users and creators themselves, they thought about the long term and wanted to be able to preserve people’s work After lots of corporate shuffling, Flickr ended up in the hands of a family-owned company, SmugMug, and they made the Flickr Foundation to preserve public photos for the next 100 years NASA’s…