NASA secures four 2026 Telly Awards for historic Artemis II coverage

NASA has been awarded four 2026 Telly Awards for its multimedia coverage of the Artemis II mission, which marked the first human journey around the Moon in over 50 years. The accolades recognise the agency’s comprehensive approach to broadcasting, which combined live event coverage with science storytelling to engage an international audience.

The primary award honoured the mission’s continuous 24/7 livestream. This broadcast combined high-resolution visuals, real-time mission data, and expert analysis to make the complex spaceflight accessible to viewers. The coverage reached nearly 290 million combined views across agency and commercial partnership platforms, representing NASA’s largest streaming audience ever on its individual platforms.

Brittany Brown, director of NASA’s Office of Communications Digital and Technology Division, highlighted the coordination required to achieve this reach. She noted that the team’s efforts, spanning from the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to the Moon itself, turned a single spaceflight mission into a shared global experience.

In addition to the livestream, NASA received a science and technology storytelling award for video documentation of mission astronauts and support teams conducting geology training on Earth. This content was produced to prepare for future Artemis missions on the lunar surface.

The agency also won a screenwriting award for a documentary covering the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The documentary was narrated by actor John Rhys-Davies.

These awards underscore NASA’s strategy of using digital platforms to connect global audiences with space exploration. The coverage allowed millions of viewers to experience the mission inside the Orion spacecraft alongside the crew, from the lunar flyby to splashdown.