{"id":450055,"date":"2026-02-28T09:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T09:47:07","slug":"nasa-announce-new-moon-mission-for-artemis-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/450055\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA announce new moon mission for Artemis astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Today, NASA has announced that Artemis astronauts will have to complete an extra moon mission, before it will attempt to land them on the moon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The update&#8217;s been made two days after the Artemis II mission was pushed back to April &#8211; the second time it&#8217;s been delayed &#8211; due to problems with the rocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artemis II will send four astronauts on a trip around the moon, but a moon landing was originally planned to take place during its follow-up mission, Artemis III.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But now, this won&#8217;t happen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Instead, NASA says the Artemis III mission will involve astronauts riding in the Orion spacecraft, which they&#8217;ll practise connecting to lunar landers whilst still orbiting Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, NASA has announced that Artemis astronauts will have to complete an extra moon mission, before it will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450055","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\/450055","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=450055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}