{"id":363602,"date":"2026-04-04T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363602\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:18:10","slug":"artemis-ii-crew-lunch-menu-reveals-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/363602\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II crew lunch menu reveals unexpected\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crew lunch aboard the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/artemis-ii-toilet-broken-christina-koch-video-b2951457.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Artemis II<\/a> features an unexpected variety of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dishes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">dishes<\/a> and even sauces.<\/p>\n<p>The historic space craft launched on Wednesday (1 April), carrying the first crewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mission<\/a> to the\u00a0Moon\u00a0since Apollo 17 in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Footage posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NASA<\/a> on Friday (3 April) shows astronaut Jeremy Hansen unpacking meals.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">video<\/a>&#8216;s voiceover says some of the lunch options for the day were \u201cbeef stew, roasted turkey, cauliflower and cheese, cherry blueberry cobbler, butternut squash\u201d as well as \u201ccheese tortellini, vanilla pudding, and the most appetising chocolate pudding cake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the space ship also has various spreads and sauces onboard, including \u201c\u200amaple syrup, chocolate spread, peanut butter, hot sauce, spicy mustard, strawberry jam, honey cinnamon and almond butter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crew lunch aboard the Artemis II features an unexpected variety of dishes and even sauces. The historic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[251,784,788,782,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,147,392,787,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-363602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-daily-news","10":"tag-global-news","11":"tag-inkl","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-news-app","15":"tag-news-headlines","16":"tag-news-today","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-today-news","22":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}