{"id":376335,"date":"2026-01-18T04:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T04:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T04:11:07","slug":"artemis-ii-nasas-mega-moon-rocket-arrives-at-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376335\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II: Nasa&#8217;s mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa said the mission could take its astronauts further into space that anyone has been before. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artemis II is not scheduled to land on the Moon, but will instead lay the groundwork for a future lunar landing led by the Artemis III mission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa said the launch of Artemis III will take place &#8220;no earlier than&#8221; 2027. But, experts believe 2028 is the earliest possible date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Koch said it was an amazing feeling to see the rocket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Astronauts are the calmest people on launch day. And I think&#8230; it feels that way because we&#8217;re just so ready to fulfil the mission that we came here to do, that we&#8217;ve trained to do,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hansen said he hoped the mission would inspire the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The Moon is something that I&#8217;ve taken for granted. I&#8217;ve looked at it my whole life, but then you just glance at it and glance away,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But now I&#8217;ve been staring at it a lot more, and I think others will be joining us and staring at the Moon a lot more as there will be humans flying around the far side and that is just good for humanity.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa said the mission could take its astronauts further into space that anyone has been before. Artemis II&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-376335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376335","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=376335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}