{"id":522294,"date":"2026-04-09T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522294\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:05:08","slug":"artemis-ii-space-mission-leaves-welsh-firm-over-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522294\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II space mission leaves Welsh firm &#8216;over the moon&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spectrum Technologies&#8217; machines use lasers to print numbers and letters on to the wires used in spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For the Artemis II mission, these were printed on to the wiring inside the Orion space capsule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;All the wires are basically white, there are too many to colour code, so therefore each wire has a unique alpha-numeric identity code printed on it,&#8221; Dr Dickinson added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A love of space begun when he was a boy, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/webarchive\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Farchive%2Fmoon-landings%2Fz6bd382\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he cited the 1969 Moon landing <\/a>as an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;As a 15-year-old teenager I was absolutely riveted by the Apollo programme and watched the Moon landing at half past three in the morning &#8211; it put shivers up your back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That was a once in a lifetime, really quite amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spectrum Technologies&#8217; machines use lasers to print numbers and letters on to the wires used in spacecraft. For&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-522294","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\/522294","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=522294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}