{"id":379918,"date":"2026-04-03T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379918\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:10:07","slug":"artemis-ii-crew-shows-bizarre-way-they-sleep-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379918\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II crew shows bizarre way they sleep in space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artemis II astronauts<\/a> sleep \u201clike a bat\u201d or wherever they can fit themselves comfortably in their crammed spacecraft quarters as they hurtle through space towards the moon, NASA mission commander Reid Wiseman revealed.<\/p>\n

After the adrenaline of their historic launch<\/a> on Wednesday for their 10-day trip around the moon, the four-person crew has only managed to squeeze in a couple \u201cvery short naps\u201d in their first 30 hours in space \u2014 and in very strange places.<\/p>\n

\u201cChristina (Koch) has been sleeping heads down in the middle of the vehicle, kind of like a bat suspended from our docking tunnel,\u201d Wiseman told ABC News<\/a> from the 330 cubic-foot Orion spacecraft the crew has named \u201cIntegrity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four members of the Artemis II crew during a live stream as they travel to orbit the Moon on April 3, 2026. NASA<\/p>\n

\u201cVictor (Glover) has a nice little nook wedged in there. And then Jeremy (Hansen) has been stretched out on seat one, and I\u2019ve been sleeping under the displays, just in case anything goes wrong,\u201d Wiseman said.<\/p>\n

The team revealed they were shocked by how flawlessly the launch went Wednesday evening, with the rocket blasting from the Kennedy Space Center just moments after the two-hour launch window opened.<\/p>\n

The astronauts are now embarking for the moon, where only 24 humans have gone before, after completing a test orbit around Earth.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re expected to reach the moon in four days<\/a>, loop around and then return back to Earth.<\/p>\n

Artemis II<\/a> had been slowly circling the Earth in a large elliptical orbit since the launch, but an injection burn last night accelerated the capsule to about 22,000 mph and broke it free from orbit \u2014 launching it into the empty 250,000 mile vastness between the Earth and moon known as the cislunar space.<\/p>\n

The Artemis II crew sleeping bag configuration inside the Orion spacecraft. NASA<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s Arteis II mission aboard SLS rocket lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 1, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n

On Monday, day six of the mission, the crew will come within 4,000 miles of the moon and see its far side in sunlight for the first time with human eyes.<\/p>\n

While much of the dangerous journey lies ahead, Wiseman revealed the \u201cspectacular\u201d moment that left the astronauts speechless as they looked back home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a moment about an hour ago where Mission Control Houston reoriented our spacecraft as the sun was setting behind the earth,\u201d Wiseman told ABC.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I don\u2019t know what we all expected to see at that moment, but you could see the entire globe, from pole to pole.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could see Africa, Europe, and if you looked really close, you could see the northern lights. It was the most spectacular moment, and it paused all four of us in our tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts sleep \u201clike a bat\u201d or wherever they can fit themselves comfortably in their crammed spacecraft…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[107033,19650,61,60,6185,91,82,87556,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-379918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-artemis-ii","9":"tag-astronauts","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-moon","13":"tag-nasa","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-sleeping","16":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379918","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=379918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}