On 2 October 2026 we pasted NASA's video “Artemis Origins: Humanity's Return to the Moon” into our tool. Below are the first 30 seconds of what came back. We have not changed a word. NASA videos are public domain, so we can show it here.
Artemis Origins: Humanity's Return to the Moon — NASA on YouTube. Watch itWords, names and times come from NASA's own captions for the video.
0:01[John F. Kennedy] We choose to go to the Moon ...
0:03[Neil Armstrong] That’s one small step for man ...
0:06[Jessica Meir] If we look back at the Apollo missions
0:08and all of the scientific data
0:10that were obtained during those missions ...
0:13[Harrison Schmitt] There is orange soil!
0:15[Gene Cernan ] Hey! It is!
0:16We learned so much not only about the Moon,
0:18but also about the Earth, and the entire solar system.
0:22[Anthony Colaprete] We've only barely scratched the surface
0:24in terms of the amount of area we've explored on the Moon.
0:27[Gene Cernan] We leave as we came,
0:29and God willing,
0:30as we shall return.
…the transcript goes on. The free result ran to the first minute and kept 7 more lines for Pro.
What to notice
Speaker names. NASA put each speaker's name in its captions, so the transcript shows [John F. Kennedy], [Neil Armstrong] and so on. That only happens when the creator writes names into the captions. YouTube's automatic captions don't, so on most videos you get the words without names.
Nothing is cleaned up. The “...” marks and the extra space in “[Gene Cernan ]” are in NASA's captions, so they are in the transcript too. We pass captions through as they are. That keeps quotes faithful, but it means you should tidy the text before you publish it.
One sentence can run over several lines. Jessica Meir's sentence starts at 0:06 and ends at 0:10. Captions break text to fit the screen, not at the end of a sentence.
Times are per line. Each line keeps the start time from the captions. To hear Harrison Schmitt find orange soil, open the video at 0:13.
The summary it wrote
Every transcript comes with a short summary, written automatically from the transcript. This is the one for this video, exactly as returned:
The transcripts highlight the significance of lunar exploration, emphasizing past achievements and future ambitions, particularly the Artemis program aimed at returning humans to the Moon and eventually reaching Mars.
The Moon landing is a monumental achievement in human history.
Scientific data from Apollo missions has greatly expanded our understanding of the Moon and solar system.
There is still much to explore on the Moon.
The Artemis program aims to send the next man and the first woman to the Moon.
The goal is to use lunar exploration as a stepping stone to Mars.
It gets the main idea right: Apollo, what it taught us, and Artemis going back. It also says “the transcripts” because this video stitches together many clips. Treat a summary as a quick guide to what the video covers, and check the transcript before you quote anything.
This transcript vs YouTube's Show transcript
YouTube can show the same captions next to the video: open the description and click Show transcript. That is the quickest way to read along. It is harder to take the text with you. You copy it line by line, with the times mixed in.
Our tool reads the same captions, so the words match. You get the whole text in one block to copy, TXT, SRT and VTT files, and the summary above. If a video has no captions at all, neither YouTube nor our tool can show a transcript. Our tool tells you so, and that try does not count.
What you could do with it
Quote it. Lift Cernan's last words from the Moon with the exact time, so readers can check them.
Outline an article. The names show who says what, which gives you sections: Apollo, the science, the next step.
Study. Search the text for a name or word instead of scrubbing through the video.
Subtitle your own edit. Download the SRT and load it into your video editor.
Get this for your own video
Copy the YouTube link. The video needs captions, made by the creator or by YouTube.
A list of short lines, each with the time it starts in the video. The words are the video's captions. You can read them on the page, copy them, or download them as TXT, SRT or VTT.
Why do some lines start with a name in brackets?
Because the video's captions include it. NASA wrote the speaker's name into its captions, and we keep what the captions say. YouTube's automatic captions don't name speakers, so most videos won't show names.
Is the transcript the same as YouTube's Show transcript?
The words are the same, because both come from the captions. The difference is what you can do with them: here you get the whole text to copy, files to download, and a short summary.
Is it free?
Yes, to try. Without an account you get 1 free video every 30 days, and signing in free gives you 1 more. Free results show the first minute of each video. Pro ($13.50/month) gives full-length transcripts.