{"id":377940,"date":"2026-01-19T04:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377940\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:14:09","slug":"artemis-ii-rocket-arrives-at-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/377940\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II: Rocket arrives at launch pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa&#8217;s mega rocket has arrived at the launch pad for the Artemis II mission. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rocket travelled for over 12 hours to reach the pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as part of final preparations for the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa says the earliest the rocket can blast off is 6 February, but there are also more launch windows later that month, as well as in March and April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before it takes off, it has got checks, tests and a dress rehearsal to complete. BBC Science editor Rebecca Morelle tells us more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa&#8217;s mega rocket has arrived at the launch pad for the Artemis II mission. The rocket travelled for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-377940","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\/377940","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=377940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}