Artemis II: Around the Moon, Part 1 - Passing Apollo 13 (2026) is a 103-minute documentary that airs free on Starlite TV's Doc Vault (CH 6) channel. It is in the U.S. public domain.
About Artemis II: Around the Moon, Part 1 - Passing Apollo 13 (2026)
About the mission
Artemis II flew from April 1 to April 11, 2026. It was the first crewed flight of NASA's Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, and the first time people had travelled beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972. The crew named their Orion capsule Integrity. Rather than landing, they flew a loop around the far side of the Moon and came home, testing the spacecraft and procedures that later Artemis missions will rely on.
This is NASA's own live coverage of flyby day, April 6, 2026, split into three blocks. Part 1 follows the build-up to a milestone: the moment the crew travelled farther from Earth than anyone before them, beating the record of 248,655 miles set by the Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970.
The crew
Reid Wiseman, NASA, commander
Victor Glover, NASA, pilot
Christina Koch, NASA, mission specialist
Jeremy Hansen, Canadian Space Agency, mission specialist
What you'll see
Mission control commentary explains the plan for the day while live cameras look into Orion's cabin and out toward the Moon. When the record falls, Houston reads a tribute to the Apollo 13 crew and the astronauts answer from the spacecraft, challenging the next generation to make sure the record does not last long. The crew then proposes names for two unnamed craters they could see from their windows: Integrity, after their spacecraft, and Carroll, in memory of Reid Wiseman's late wife.
Good to know
This is live television, not an edited documentary: there are quiet stretches of silent spacecraft views between commentary. The pre-show countdown slate has been trimmed. Part 2 covers the far side of the Moon and the loss of signal; Part 3 covers the solar eclipse seen from the Moon.
Public-domain status
The broadcast was produced by NASA, a U.S. federal agency. Works of the U.S. government are not protected by copyright in the United States, so it is in the public domain. See "Rights & source" below.
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Basis: U.S. federal government work - public domain (17 U.S.C. 105)
Evidence: U.S. federal government work: NASA's official broadcast 'NASA's Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast)' (April 6, 2026; NASA YouTube z-j1uxBmis0), not subject to U.S. copyright (17 U.S.C. 105). Wikimedia Commons lists the same broadcast as public domain (NASA): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2026-04-06_NASA%E2%80%99s_Artemis_II_Crew_Flies_Around_the_Moon_(Official_Broadcast)_(1).webm . Played from the Internet Archive's H.264 mirror of the NASA broadcast.
Music: NASA-produced live coverage. Spot-checked 2026-10-10: the pre-show 'Live event starts soon' slate with music is cut (block 1 starts at 1:44); sampled caption gaps are silent live spacecraft views; no third-party network clips or commercial music found in the sampled portions. NASA insignia/logo shown as part of NASA's own broadcast (not used to imply endorsement).
Underlying rights: Clip of a 10h10m broadcast file, aired as three blocks (in-point via '#t=' on the URL). Crew audio includes CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen as part of NASA's broadcast. Website plays the 480p H.264 MP4 (large index: ~40 MB moov, slow first load). Commons original is a 4K AV1 WebM (6h13m) - not used: no Safari/Roku support. This block: 104s-6300s of the file.
