{"id":552952,"date":"2026-03-29T20:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552952\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:31:08","slug":"nasa-gives-update-on-artemis-ii-mission-after-astronauts-answer-questions-from-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/552952\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa gives update on Artemis II mission, after astronauts answer questions from quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasa Artemis II crew taking questions ahead of moon missionpublished at 16:43 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:43 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The crew of Nasa&#8217;s Artemis II mission are answering questions from quarantine ahead of the launch of the moon mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nasa is aiming for an early April launch for the first crewed mission around the Moon in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Artemis II mission, which will last about 10 days, will take its astronauts further into space than anyone has been before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artemis II&#8217;s crew of four is made up of Nasa commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Christina Koch. A second mission specialist, Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency, will also be on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The mission involves the first crewed flight of Nasa&#8217;s gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion space capsule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We won&#8217;t be bringing you regular text updates, but you can watch their comments live at the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasa Artemis II crew taking questions ahead of moon missionpublished at 16:43 BST 16:43 BST The crew of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-552952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552952","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=552952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}