{"id":469316,"date":"2026-06-10T00:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469316\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T00:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:53:13","slug":"italian-luca-parmitano-to-be-first-european-to-join-an-artemis-mission-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469316\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Luca Parmitano to be first European to join an Artemis mission: Nasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Three Nasa astronauts are also on the crew: Randy Bresnik will command the mission, and Andre Douglas and Frank Rubio round out the rest of the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">This past spring\u2019s Artemis 2 mission saw humans conduct a lunar flyby, but the third phase will stay closer to Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The primary goals of the trip include testing the abilities of Nasa\u2019s Orion spacecraft, as well as a rendezvous with lunar landers developed by the private space companies SpaceX and Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">The timeline of the mission has been thrown into question after Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin\u2019s New Glenn rocket exploded during a ground test late last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">During an event at Houston\u2019s Johnson Space Center, John Couluris of Blue Origin acknowledged the \u201csignificant anomaly\u201d but insisted the company\u2019s lander will be ready for Artemis 3 on time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe have redoubled our efforts and are moving forward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Nasa astronauts are also on the crew: Randy Bresnik will command the mission, and Andre Douglas and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[3041,8831,696,6282,23642,5195,6446,1888,2198,19755,58138,7239,14351,3323,37731,111,139,69,237390,19723,32146,147,392,61,96878,1533],"class_list":["post-469316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-agency","tag-an","tag-announced","tag-artemis","tag-astronaut","tag-be","tag-european","tag-first","tag-italian","tag-join","tag-luca","tag-mission","tag-missions","tag-nasa","tag-nasas","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parmitano","tag-pilot","tag-programmes","tag-science","tag-space","tag-to","tag-voyage","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469316","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=469316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}