{"id":387247,"date":"2026-04-08T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387247\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:43:09","slug":"nasa-artemis-ii-mission-begins-journey-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/387247\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Artemis II Mission Begins Journey Back To Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Tuesday, 7 April 2026 15:55\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d51ab2324a4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Photo Credit: NASA<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Seanie Morris from the Midlands Astronomy Club says it was a good time to send the mission out.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Nasa&#8217;s Artemis Two astronauts have begun their journey back to Earth, after looping around the far side of the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0They&#8217;ve journeyed more than 252 thousand miles into Space, further than any human being&#8217;s gone before.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re also the first people to ever see a solar eclipse from Space.<\/p>\n<p>Seanie Morris from the Midlands Astronomy Club says this was a strategic decision:<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 7 April 2026 15:55 Photo Credit: NASA Seanie Morris from the Midlands Astronomy Club says it was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,82,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-387247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-irish-news","13":"tag-laois","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-local-radio","16":"tag-midlands","17":"tag-midlands-103","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-offaly","20":"tag-radio","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-westmeath"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387247","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=387247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}