{"id":559953,"date":"2026-04-02T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559953\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:26:08","slug":"stunning-images-capture-artemis-ii-blasting-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559953\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Images Capture Artemis II Blasting Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 1, sending four astronauts around the Moon for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedyspacecenter.com\/landing-pages\/artemis-ii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:first time since 1972;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;first time since 1972&quot;}\" class=\"link \">first time since 1972<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Three Americans and one Canadian were on board the craft as it blasted off from Merritt Island for the 10-day mission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTheir goal is to verify modern human capabilities in deep space and pave the way for long-term exploration and science on the lunar surface,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedyspacecenter.com\/landing-pages\/artemis-ii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NASA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;NASA&quot;}\" class=\"link \">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">These images captured by the United Launch Alliance shows the craft blasting off from Merritt Island. Credit: United Launch Alliance via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 1, sending four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[248207,16569,79,14716,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-559953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-human-capabilities","9":"tag-kennedy-space-center","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-united-launch-alliance","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559953","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=559953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}