{"id":162948,"date":"2026-04-11T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162948\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T02:50:08","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-return-to-earth-capping-historic-nasa-mission-in-photos-associated-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162948\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts return to Earth, capping historic NASA mission, in photos | Associated Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Artemis II astronauts are back on Earth. The three Americans and one Canadian returned with a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-artemis-astronauts-moon-splashdown-16adc5450f0127a0743292ef30b239f1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dramatic splashdown<\/a> Friday evening, as their capsule parachuted into the Pacific to close out a nearly 10-day trip to the moon and back. The crew was the first to visit the moon since <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nasa-moon-apollo-artemis-astronauts-c3bb9888b75e67574a1b66e643b87621\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Apollo era<\/a> more than a half-century ago.<\/p>\n<p>This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Artemis II astronauts are back on Earth. The three Americans and one Canadian returned with a dramatic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37203,119,121,120,73633,5535,38,837,8039,70876,503,44,301],"class_list":{"0":"post-162948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-artemis-ii-launch-photos","13":"tag-climate-and-environment","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-lifestyle","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-space-exploration","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-u-s-news","20":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}