{"id":323491,"date":"2025-11-27T03:40:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=75375f897a972b51afb78222d48790dd"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:40:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:40:34","slug":"artemis-ii-orion-spacecraft-stacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323491","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II Orion Spacecraft Stacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?w=1366\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"The orange core stage of the Artemis II rocket with white boosters on each side fully stacked inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA&#039;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg 5464w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=200,300 200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=768,1151 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=683,1024 683w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=1025,1536 1025w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=1366,2048 1366w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=267,400 267w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=400,600 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=600,900 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=800,1200 800w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ksc-20251020-ph-kls01-0050orig-rotated.jpg?resize=1334,2000 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Kim Shiflett<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/artemis\/artemis-2\/nasa-progresses-toward-artemis-ii-moon-mission\/\">Artemis II<\/a> Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency\u2019s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Orion will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on a 10-day mission around the Moon and back in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/artemis\/\">Follow along with the mission on the NASA Artemis blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Kim Shiflett<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, NASA\u2019s Artemis II Orion spacecraft with its launch abort system is stacked atop the agency\u2019s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Orion will carry NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15680],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orion-multi-purpose-crew-vehicle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323974,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323491\/revisions\/323974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}