{"id":157416,"date":"2025-09-24T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157416\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:31:09","slug":"nasa-plans-to-send-people-back-to-the-moon-from-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/157416\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa plans to send people back to the Moon from February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lead Artemis II flight director, Jeff Radigan explained that the crew would be flying further into space than anyone had been before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re going at least 5,000 nautical miles (9,200 km) past the Moon, which is much higher than previous missions have gone,&#8221; he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The aim of the mission is to test the rocket and spacecraft&#8217;s systems to prepare for a Moon landing, which will be Artemis III &#8211;  part three of the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The astronauts will live in a capsule which will will be blasted into space by powerful rocket system, called the Space Launch System (SLS) which Nasa says is &#8220;pretty much stacked and ready to go&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They&#8217;ll live and work in capsule called Orion, which sits on top of the SLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lead Artemis II flight director, Jeff Radigan explained that the crew would be flying further into space than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-157416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}