{"id":513544,"date":"2026-04-05T02:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513544\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:40:23","slug":"artemis-iis-journey-so-far-as-it-leaves-earth-orbit-in-85-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513544\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II&#8217;s journey so far as it leaves Earth orbit&#8230; in 85 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The four astronauts on Nasa&#8217;s Artemis II mission are the first humans since 1972 to leave Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are now on a looping path that will carry them around the far side of the Moon and back again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Their 10-day journey will ferry them up to 252,799 miles (406,840km) from Earth, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdrm3251xzeo\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 eFLwgv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">exceeding the previous record<\/a> set by Apollo 13 \u2013 248,655 miles \u2013 in 1970.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">The crew will not be landing on the Moon on this current mission, and will instead use it to prepare for a potential lunar landing by 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c937g7nd5x4o\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 eFLwgv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more about its journey here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four astronauts on Nasa&#8217;s Artemis II mission are the first humans since 1972 to leave Earth orbit.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513544","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\/513544","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=513544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}