{"id":369891,"date":"2026-04-01T19:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/369891\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:25:11","slug":"artemis-astronauts-board-spacecraft-ahead-of-first-crewed-mission-around-moon-in-more-than-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/369891\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis: Astronauts board spacecraft ahead of first crewed mission around Moon in more than 50 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crew have named their capsule &#8216;Integrity&#8217;published at 19:39 BST<\/p>\n<p>19:39 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/67db26c1-b336-4b9e-8307-5c83efdce26a.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Pallab Ghosh<br \/>Science correspondent, reporting from the launch site<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The astronauts have just entered the Orion crew capsule, which they named Integrity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They chose the name to reflect the values they believe will carry them safely to the Moon and back \u2013 trust, respect, candour and humility \u2013 not just within the crew, but across the huge team of engineers, technicians and mission planners who have built and prepared the spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crew will begin configuring Orion for flight: powering up and checking flight computers and displays, confirming life\u2011support systems and running through communications checks with mission control. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They will rehearse emergency procedures, review the timeline and then monitor the final stages of the countdown as the Space Launch System is fuelled below them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From this point on, Orion becomes both cockpit and &#8211; if there is a successful launch home \u2013 the place where they will work, eat and sleep during their ten\u2011day journey out around the far side of the Moon and back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Astronauts inside the Orion crew capsule\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c65ccb2d-fba0-4cb7-82f1-48e3eb6e19ac.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crew have named their capsule &#8216;Integrity&#8217;published at 19:39 BST 19:39 BST Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, reporting from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[85,46,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-369891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}