{"id":529702,"date":"2026-04-14T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529702\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:02:08","slug":"artemis-astronaut-steals-moon-mascot-from-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529702\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis astronaut steals moon mascot from Nasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin brought a small doll on to humanity\u2019s first ever spaceflight, while in 1990, Snoopy was flown on the Nasa space shuttle Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Shaun the Sheep was sent into space as part of Nasa\u2019s Artemis I mission to travel around the moon and back.<\/p>\n<p>The 16cm-tall model was a passenger in a capsule blasted into orbit by the rocket and covered around 1.5 million miles before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>After the animal starred in a sci-fi film called Farmageddon, the agency reached out to his creators to ask whether he would go on the mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin brought a small doll on to humanity\u2019s first ever spaceflight, while in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1586,174720,50,90,416,5438,56,54,55,157732,1384],"class_list":{"0":"post-529702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-moon","9":"tag-nasa-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-standard","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom","17":"tag-us-content","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529702","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=529702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}