{"id":382948,"date":"2026-04-16T19:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382948\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:12:08","slug":"artemis-ii-crew-talk-about-their-moon-mission-watch-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382948\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II crew talk about their Moon mission &#8211; watch live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four person crew that made space travel historypublished at 18:33 BST<\/p>\n<p>18:33 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The four Artemis II astronauts smile and pose aboard the spacecraft\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ea81e4be-f6f3-43ac-aaec-c5f9de16f740.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1021\" height=\"574\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From left: Astronauts Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four astronauts &#8211; three Americans and one Canadian &#8211; trained for more than two years before taking Artemis II around the Moon. They have decades of experience between them &#8211; although one had never been to space before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Nasa astronauts, who have all previously been to space, are:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reid Wiseman, 50, the mission&#8217;s commander. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Victor Glover, 49, the mission&#8217;s pilot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Christina Koch, 47, a mission specialist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the Canadian Space Agency astronaut is:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jeremy Hansen, 50, a specialist. This was Hansen&#8217;s first time in space. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All of the astronauts said they sat down with their families to talk about the risks involved before the launch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve all got someone, an astronaut, that is going to be with our family members when they&#8217;re watching launch, which can be this terrific and terrifying moment all at the same time,&#8221; Glover said ahead of the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four person crew that made space travel historypublished at 18:33 BST 18:33 BST Image source, Getty ImagesImage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-382948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382948","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=382948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}