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Hear from the Artemis II crew about impact flashes — bursts of light caused by pieces of space debris hitting the ground — that they saw while they were on the other side of the Moon, during a planned loss of comms.

Here’s what it was like at two key points in the story: when the crew witnessed the flashes, and when the Lunar Science Team received the news back at Mission Control.

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The impact flash observations happened during a planned loss of communications while the Artemis II crew was on the far side of the Moon. Here’s what it was like at two key points in the story: when the crew witnessed the flashes, and when the Lunar Science Team received the news at NASA’s Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center in Houston.