{"id":373319,"date":"2026-04-03T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:35:11","slug":"artemis-iis-journey-so-far-as-it-leaves-earths-orbit-in-85-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/373319\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II’s journey so far as it leaves Earth’s orbit … in 85 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The four astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission are the first humans since 1972 to leave Earth’s orbit.<\/p>\n

Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are now on a looping path that will carry them around the far side of the Moon and back again.<\/p>\n

Their 10-day journey will ferry them up to 252,799 miles (406,840km) from Earth, exceeding the previous record<\/a> set by Apollo 13 \u2013 248,655 miles \u2013 in 1970.<\/p>\n

The crew will not be landing on the Moon on this current mission, and will instead use it to prepare for a potential lunar landing by 2028.<\/p>\n

Read more about its journey here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission are the first humans since 1972 to leave Earth’s orbit.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-373319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373319","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=373319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}