The Wonderful World of Artemis II Photos

Hank Green has made something really cool. Called the Artemis II Photo Timeline, it’s an interactive way to scroll through photos from NASA’s recent crewed mission to cislunar space — but pinned to NASA’s official schedule of the mission. Nick Heer has more: It is also a tribute to publicly available data. Though the timeline includes some videos published to Instagram and YouTube, the vast majority are images from Flickr. NASA usually uploads them with EXIF data intact, and Flickr preserves it. NASA also provided the mission schedule and, even better, has a public API for the position of the Orion spacecraft at any given time. Which means Green was also able to correlate the photos with where they were taken along the craft’s trajectory. But why are these images on Flickr? Anil Dash explains: 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…