{"id":594974,"date":"2026-04-10T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594974\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:05:08","slug":"all-eyes-on-the-skies-as-artemis-ii-returns-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594974\/","title":{"rendered":"All Eyes on the Skies as Artemis II Returns to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/artemis-2-mission-nasa-crew-space-moon-landing.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"All Eyes on the Skies as Artemis II Returns to Earth\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Artemis II crew. Photo via NASA.)<\/p>\n<p>The crew of the Artemis II is heading back home to Earth with splashdown in the Pacific scheduled for tonight. <\/p>\n<p>The crew has travelled the farthest away from Earth than any human before after passing on the dark side of the moon. <\/p>\n<p>The past president of the Royal Astronomical Society, Garry Dymond, says the crew wasn\u2019t just on a sight-seeing mission; they achieved a number of important tasks helping to pave the way for further space exploration. <\/p>\n<p>They practiced making a storm tent, where basically they moved water to one side of the spacecraft and put up reflectors so that the radiation wouldn\u2019t hit them. They wanted to make sure that worked for the next people who are put there for\u2026a longer time.  They\u2019ve done so many things and now, they\u2019re coming back!\u201d    <\/p>\n<p>He says re-entry into Earth\u2019s atmosphere is difficult enough, but in this case, they\u2019re heading back to Earth at speeds faster than any capsule before.  <\/p>\n<p>Dymond says they\u2019ve got to come back into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere 120 km above the Earth\u2019s surface, and in order to slow down, they have to \u201cturn the capsule slowly, so that it bounces, and hits the side of the atmosphere, slowing it down. Then they turn the capsule out and do another orbit to slow it down and then they enter the atmosphere.\u201d    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Artemis II crew. Photo via NASA.) The crew of the Artemis II is heading back home to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-594974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594974","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=594974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}