{"id":509891,"date":"2026-04-03T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509891\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:01:11","slug":"why-isnt-artemis-ii-landing-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/509891\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isn&#8217;t Artemis II landing on the Moon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The most powerful rocket ever built by Nasa is carrying the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years. But it&#8217;s not actually landing on the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">That&#8217;s because the Artemis program is using this second mission, Artemis II, to prepare for a potential lunar landing by 2028 &#8211; as a stepping stone for even deeper space exploration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">BBC correspondent Arunoday Mukharji is in Florida for the launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Video edited by Alex Foster<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/c4g4ygw0r02t\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 eFLwgv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow along with the BBC&#8217;s live coverage of the Artemis II mission here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The most powerful rocket ever built by Nasa is carrying the first crewed mission to the Moon in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-509891","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\/509891","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=509891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}