{"id":575243,"date":"2026-04-10T04:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575243\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:31:10","slug":"photos-this-week-april-2-april-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575243\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos this week: April 2-April 9, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half a century after the final Apollo lunar mission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/03\/27\/science\/nasa-artemis-2-astronauts-crew\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four astronauts<\/a> have traveled to the vicinity of the moon once again. <\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Jeremy Hansen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/01\/science\/live-news\/artemis-2-nasa-launch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lifted off from Florida&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center<\/a> last week for a 10-day journey that has taken them beyond the far side of the moon. <\/p>\n<p>Their trajectory during the Artemis II mission took them farther from Earth than any humans have traveled before. During a seven-hour flyby on Monday, the astronauts enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/01\/science\/gallery\/moon-mission-artemis-2-photos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">views of the lunar surface<\/a> previously unseen by human eyes. <\/p>\n<p>NASA has long billed the Artemis program as a stepping stone for exploring deeper into the cosmos. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the stories that made headlines over the past week, as well as some photos that caught our eye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than half a century after the final Apollo lunar mission, four astronauts have traveled to the vicinity&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-575243","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\/575243","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=575243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}