{"id":560754,"date":"2026-04-02T19:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560754\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:47:11","slug":"youngster-who-witnessed-historic-artemis-ii-launch-goes-viral-for-f-word-response-to-cnn-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560754\/","title":{"rendered":"Youngster who witnessed historic Artemis II launch goes viral for F-word response to CNN reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"828\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/175acd35dfaea9c42fda8a280837fc2a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A young space fanatic could hardly contain his excitement when asked why he trekked all the way to Florida to watch the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/artemis-ii-send-america-back-104500208.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:human-crewed moon expedition;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">human-crewed moon expedition<\/a> in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/01\/us-news\/artemis-ii-launch-live-updates-as-nasa-sends-astronauts-to-the-moon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Follow The Post\u2019s live updates on the launch of NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission to the moon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Follow The Post\u2019s live updates on the launch of NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission to the moon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The boy waited patiently at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida, for the highly anticipated Artemis II launch. He strapped a GoPro camera onto his NASA cap in hopes of enshrining the moment forever.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A young space fanatic could hardly contain his excitement when asked why he trekked all the way to Florida to watch the first human-crewed moon expedition in his lifetime. CNN\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/19194b54a0b2ce9477079bcf47b429d6.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A young space fanatic could hardly contain his excitement when asked why he trekked all the way to Florida to watch the first human-crewed moon expedition in his lifetime. CNN<\/p>\n<p>When a CNN reporter approached him and asked why he wanted to be \u201capart of history,\u201d he had a simple, but apt, reason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going back to the frickin\u2019 moon, that\u2019s why!\u201d he exclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>The shuttle successfully launched just after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/artemis-ii-astronauts-spend-10-110000391.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:10-day mission to the moon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">10-day mission to the moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The four-person crew, including one Canadian and three Americans, will cover upwards of 685,000 miles while they soar around the moon and Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The initial trek to the moon will take about four days.<\/p>\n<p>The takeoff itself was relatively smooth, save for a few minor issues engineers had to address.<\/p>\n<p>One error with the temperature in one of the two Launch Abort Systems was patched just 19 minutes before the launch window opened around 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All systems were \u201cGo\u201d moments later. Artemis II reached orbit a short nine minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest on NASA\u2019s Artemis launch:<img alt=\"The Artemis II\u2019s 10-day journey. Donald Pearsall \/ NY Post Design\/ NASA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/273cf8e751b2185c20a41d50206826d2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Artemis II\u2019s 10-day journey. Donald Pearsall \/ NY Post Design\/ NASA<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The Orion capsule being used in the Artemis II mission. Donald Pearsall \/ NY Post Design \/ ESA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"877\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4c56635158af4804551dd47d8196d5e9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Orion capsule being used in the Artemis II mission. Donald Pearsall \/ NY Post Design \/ ESA<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Mission Control in Houston will monitor the flight around-the-clock for the next 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>The first Artemis program rocket, Artemis I, went on the same orbit in 2022 without a human crew on board.<\/p>\n<p>Artemis II is the first human-crewed mission of its kind since Apollo 17 in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Apollo program sent 24 total astronauts to the moon between 1968 and 1972.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young space fanatic could hardly contain his excitement when asked why he trekked all the way to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[248515,42141,2808,248516,718,79,34076,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-560754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-artemis-i","9":"tag-artemis-ii","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-moon-expedition","12":"tag-nasa","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-titusville","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560754","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=560754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}