They are quoting NASA.

[unexplained loss of data]

It is funny if you think about it, imagine you arrive on a planet and there is nothing there, now what. Not saying it is not worth doing but it's like other aspects of life, about the journey. But yeah I think we are lucky to have this ability/get outside of our sandbox. Be aware of the bigger picture.

If they're someone else's words, they'll put them in quotation marks. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

Not really

> Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth

It was described by someone else as spectacular - in this case NASA

> Artemis II crew take spectacular image of Earth

We the BBC certify that this image is officially spectacular

Not hugely important in this context. By more import, when the sentence is something like X 'commits warcrimes' against Y