{"id":560824,"date":"2026-04-02T20:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560824\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:37:06","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-launch-to-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560824\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II Astronauts Launch to Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASA\/status\/2039473910987534599\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASA\/status\/2039473910987534599\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lift off<\/a> in this April 1, 2026, image. NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-ii\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Artemis II<\/a> mission will take NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy on an approximately 10-day journey around the Moon and back aboard their Orion spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasahqphoto\/albums\/72177720332843987\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">See more launch day photos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft lift off in this April 1, 2026, image. NASA\u2019s Artemis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[504,42142,16569,79,193],"class_list":["post-560824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-artemis","tag-artemis-2","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560824","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=560824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}