{"id":516334,"date":"2026-04-06T19:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516334\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:14:10","slug":"artemis-ii-live-watch-as-artemis-astronauts-travel-further-from-earth-than-any-humans-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516334\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II live: Watch as Artemis astronauts travel further from Earth than any humans before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mission so far: Flawless and beautifulpublished at 18:18 BST<\/p>\n<p>18:18 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/67db26c1-b336-4b9e-8307-5c83efdce26a.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Pallab Ghosh<br \/>Science correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artemis II roared off the launch pad and into history on Thursday &#8211; and so far, the mission is doing exactly what Nasa hoped for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cFlawless\u201d was the word that the head of the Artemis programme, Dr Lori Glaze, used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And the sights have not failed to astonish us all, from the moment the SLS rocket turned the Florida evening into a wall of white flame and thunder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After a day in Earth orbit, Orion\u2019s training wheels came off and the spacecraft with its four astronauts were blasted into an elliptical orbit around the Moon and back &#8211; seeing and sharing with us sights that had not been seen for more than fifty years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Notably the view of the whole Earth from space: a stunning view of our planet hanging in the blackness of space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The entire Earth hangs luminous in the blackness of space: deep blue oceans and swirling white clouds and bright atmosphere give it the appearance of a shimmering jewelled marble. An echo of the first colour image of Earth taken by the astronauts of Apollo 8 in 1968.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back then the image that provided a moment of hope and optimism to a divided and war-torn world, and perhaps the new picture and the mission so far might have the same effect, especially as the best is yet to come with more spectacular images as the Orion space hurtles towards to its destination.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"the entirrety of Earth is seen from the orion spacecraft. part of south america and the sahara desert are visible. clouds swirl over top and the vast, blue oceans can be seen. it is illuminated towards the southern axis by the sun, creating a sliver of light on the edge.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/591ad58d-269a-4295-9283-ea5f5a1c31fd.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"655\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The mission so far: Flawless and beautifulpublished at 18:18 BST 18:18 BST Pallab GhoshScience correspondent Artemis II roared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-516334","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\/516334","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=516334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}