NEW YORK — The Associated Press mistakenly ran a year-old photograph that had been taken during a NASA test mission to depict Sunday's splashdown of two astronauts returning from the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX capsule. The news service on Monday deleted the photo from its system and ran a “kill advisory,” telling customers about the error and urging them not to use it in the future. J. David Ake, the AP's director of photography, said he was alerted to the mistake on Monday by a NASA photographer who had seen the incorrect photo being used by newspapers. No news organization was able to photograph the splashdown, which happened in the Gulf of Mexico, 40 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.

Source: International New York Times August 03, 2020 20:03 UTC