{"id":530859,"date":"2026-04-14T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:50:13","slug":"adorable-moment-artemis-ii-astronaut-welcomed-home-by-her-dog-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/530859\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable moment Artemis II astronaut welcomed home by her dog | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artemis II astronaut Cristina Koch\u2019s adorable reunion with her dog following her<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/news\/artemis-ii-nasa-fresh-air-video-b2957205.html\" title=\"Moment Artemis II crew smell fresh air for first time after historic moon mission\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> historic trip to space<\/a> was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p>Koch and her crew splashed down safely back to Earth on Friday (10 April) after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/space\/nasa-artemis-ii-astronauts-moon-mission-space-b2954710.html\" title=\"Trailblazing Artemis II astronauts have returned to Earth after their moon mission. Their journey is just starting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a 10-day journey to circle the moon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Video posted to Instagram captured Koch, the first woman to travel to the vicinity of the moon, being welcomed home by her dog Sadie. Sadie can be seen wagging her tail in excitement as Koch drops to her knees to embrace her. <\/p>\n<p>In another clip, the astronaut and her dog run playfully along a beach together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronaut Cristina Koch\u2019s adorable reunion with her dog following her historic trip to space was caught&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[183805,183800,6494,309,165828,183804,11237,147033,183799,183803,6487,183801,90,1671,416,217,183798,183802,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-badge","9":"tag-club-soccer","10":"tag-color-image","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-flag","13":"tag-general-view","14":"tag-horizontal","15":"tag-king-power-stadium","16":"tag-leicester-city-f-c","17":"tag-match-sport","18":"tag-photography","19":"tag-preston-north-end-f-c","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-soccer","22":"tag-space","23":"tag-sport","24":"tag-stadium","25":"tag-the-championship-soccer-league","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530859","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=530859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}