{"id":398600,"date":"2026-04-03T02:50:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=c7a7f4fd53f96099df222211cb6aa717"},"modified":"2026-04-03T02:50:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:50:01","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-launch-to-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=398600","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II Astronauts Launch to Moon"},"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\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1223\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"The Artemis II Moon rocket lifts off. There is a bright yellow-orange plume of fire underneath the rocket. The trees in the foreground appear in shadow.\" 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\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg 5451w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=300,179 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=768,459 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=1024,612 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=1536,917 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=2048,1223 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=400,239 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=600,358 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=900,538 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=1200,717 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/55182924516-9d78d1e3ef-o.jpg?resize=2000,1195 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASA\/status\/2039473910987534599\"  data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NASA\/status\/2039473910987534599\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lift off<\/a> in this April 1, 2026, image. NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission\/artemis-ii\/\">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\">See more launch day photos.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Aubrey Gemignani<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft lift off in this April 1, 2026, image. NASA\u2019s Artemis II 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. See more launch [\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":[15595,15741,15717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artemis","category-artemis-2","category-kennedy-space-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398600","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=398600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398818,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398600\/revisions\/398818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}