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Artemis II astronauts report lunar flashes

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Claim

The newsletter reports that Artemis II astronauts were asked to watch the lunar far side for light flashes and observed five.

Reported metric: five flashes

Reporting date: 2026-10-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 12, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 12 issue (science.nasa.gov)

Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 12, 2026 edition. This is an attributed summary; linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Artemis II astronauts report lunar flashes
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-10-12
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-12-artemis-flashes
Claim: The newsletter reports that Artemis II astronauts were asked to watch the lunar far side for light flashes and observed five.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 12, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-12-2026
- Source linked by the October 12 issue — https://science.nasa.gov/feature/artemis-ii-preliminary-lunar-science-report/
This citation does not imply independent verification of linked-source claims.

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