{"id":548727,"date":"2026-03-20T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548727\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:44:09","slug":"artemis-ii-rocket-begins-its-slow-roll-out-to-launch-pad-ahead-of-april-flight-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/548727\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II rocket begins its slow roll out to launch pad ahead of April flight date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Artemis II rocket that\u2019s set to carry Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the moon has begun making its way to the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>NASA says rollout operations at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida began early Friday after being briefly delayed by high winds. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say the trek to the pad is expected to take up to 12 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The mission has been delayed a few times since February due to hydrogen fuel leaks and helium flow problems, but is scheduled to launch April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Hansen, who hails from London, Ont., will serve as mission specialist during Artemis II, becoming the first non-American to travel beyond low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Artemis II will be the first crewed mission to the moon since 1972 \u2014 the year of the final Apollo mission.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Sousa, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Artemis II rocket that\u2019s set to carry Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the moon has begun making&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-548727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}