{"id":517458,"date":"2026-04-07T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517458\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:00:07","slug":"astronauts-head-for-home-after-travelling-further-from-earth-than-anyone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517458\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts head for home after travelling further from Earth than anyone before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the Artemis astronauts said after regaining communication with Earthpublished at 05:23 BST<\/p>\n<p>05:23 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was much anticipation during the 40 minutes when Orion was not able to contact Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After the Artemis crew returned from the far side of the moon, mission specialist Christina Koch<br \/>\nbroke the silence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here is what Koch said: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Houston, Integrity, comm check.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is so great to hear from Earth again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To Asia, Africa and Oceana, we are looking<br \/>\nback at you, we hear you can look up and see the moon right now. We see you too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When we burned this bird towards the moon, I said that we do not leave Earth, but<br \/>\nwe choose it and that is true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We will explore, we will build, we will<br \/>\nbuild ships, we will visit again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We will construct science outposts. We<br \/>\nwill drive rovers, we will do radio astronomy, we will found companies, we will bolster industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We will inspire but ultimately we will<br \/>\nalways choose Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We will always choose each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What the Artemis astronauts said after regaining communication with Earthpublished at 05:23 BST 05:23 BST There was much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517458","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\/517458","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=517458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}