{"id":598969,"date":"2026-04-11T00:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598969\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:36:10","slug":"nasa-astronauts-prepare-for-splashdown-return-to-earth-from-moon-mission-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/598969\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA astronauts prepare for splashdown return to earth from moon mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The capsule is travelling close to 40,000 km\/h, just falling short of a speed record set by Apollo 10 in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>That speed has generated a cloud of charged particles scorching at 2500 degrees, blocking communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hear you loud and clear,\u201d Commander Reid Wiseman just said \u2013 they\u2019re back after the communications blackout!<\/p>\n<p>Small boats are on their way to the splashdown target zone.<\/p>\n<p>The trajectory is perfect.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Earth from Artemis II.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6f5836c422dac708c71111020cda921f4a97ea39.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Earth from Artemis II.AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The capsule is travelling close to 40,000 km\/h, just falling short of a speed record set by Apollo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-598969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}