{"id":374338,"date":"2026-04-04T07:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374338\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:40:07","slug":"artemis-astronauts-more-than-halfway-to-moon-putting-earth-in-rearview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374338\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis astronauts more than halfway to moon, putting Earth in rearview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                      Houston\/New York \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>The Artemis 2 astronauts passed the halfway point between Earth and the moon on Saturday as they sped toward a planned lunar flyby, with NASA releasing initial images of Earth taken from inside the Orion spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Astronaut Christina Koch said the crew had a collective &#8220;expression of joy&#8221; upon being told of the milestone, which was hit around two days, 5 hours and 24 minutes after the spacecraft blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can see the moon out of the docking hatch right now, it is a beautiful sight,&#8221; Koch said around 11 p.m. Friday, according to the space agency&#8217;s official live broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston\/New York \u2013 The Artemis 2 astronauts passed the halfway point between Earth and the moon on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1409,85,46,3442,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-374338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-astronomy","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-nasa","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374338","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=374338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}