{"id":279219,"date":"2026-02-03T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279219\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:13:09","slug":"full-moon-over-artemis-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/279219\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Moon over Artemis II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A full moon is seen shining over NASA\u2019s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the early hours of February 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The agency concluded a wet dress rehearsal for the agency\u2019s Artemis II test flight early Tuesday morning, successfully loading cryogenic propellant into the SLS (Space Launch System) tanks,\u202fsending a team out to the launch pad to closeout Orion, and safely draining\u202fthe rocket. The wet dress rehearsal was a prelaunch test to fuel the rocket, designed to identify any issues and resolve them before attempting a launch. To allow teams to review data and conduct a second wet dress rehearsal, NASA now will target\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/artemis-ii-mission-availability.pdf?emrc=698268032ea72\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">March<\/a>\u00a0as the earliest possible launch opportunity for the flight test.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/missions\/2026\/02\/03\/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about the wet dress rehearsal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Sam Lott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A full moon is seen shining over NASA\u2019s SLS (Space Launch System) and Orion spacecraft, atop the mobile&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[10557,61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-279219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-artemis-2","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}