{"id":396650,"date":"2026-01-09T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396650\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:38:11","slug":"best-of-2025-artemis-ii-countdown-demonstration-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/396650\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2025: Artemis II Countdown Demonstration Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artemis II crewmembers (left to right) NASA astronauts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/christina-koch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christina Koch<\/a>, mission specialist; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/victor-j-glover-jr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Glover<\/a>, pilot; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/astronauts\/canadian\/active\/bio-jeremy-hansen.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jeremy Hansen<\/a>, mission specialist; and NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/reid-wiseman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reid Wiseman<\/a>, commander are led by Bill Owens of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/kennedy\/get-in-were-going-to-the-moon-meet-nasas-artemis-closeout-crew\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Closeout Crew<\/a> from the elevator at the 275-foot level of the mobile launcher to the crew access arm as they prepare to board their Orion spacecraft atop NASA\u2019s Space Launch System rocket during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/artemis\/artemis-2\/artemis-ii-flight-crew-teams-conduct-demonstration-ahead-of-launch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis II countdown demonstration test<\/a>, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. For this operation, the Artemis II crew and launch teams are simulating the launch day timeline including suit-up, walkout, and spacecraft ingress and egress.<\/p>\n<p>Through the Artemis campaign, NASA will send astronauts to explore the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build the foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars, for the benefit of all.<\/p>\n<p>This image was chosen by NASA\u2019s Headquarters photo team as one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasahqphoto\/albums\/72177720331232608\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">best of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Joel Kowsky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artemis II crewmembers (left to right) NASA astronauts Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Victor Glover, pilot; CSA (Canadian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[42142,178061,178062,79,193,178063],"class_list":{"0":"post-396650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-artemis-2","9":"tag-christina-h-koch","10":"tag-g-reid-wiseman","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-victor-j-glover"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}