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 dec