{"id":234439,"date":"2026-04-02T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/artemis-ii-live-updates-crew-enters-high-earth-orbit-nasa-says-they-are-in-great-spirits"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T08:02:24","slug":"artemis-ii-live-updates-crew-enters-high-earth-orbit-nasa-says-they-are-in-great-spirits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/artemis-ii-live-updates-crew-enters-high-earth-orbit-nasa-says-they-are-in-great-spirits","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II live updates: Crew enters high Earth orbit, NASA says they are in \u2018great spirits\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artemis-ii-live-updates-crew-enters-high-earth-orbit-nasa-says-they-are-in-great-spirits.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artemis II will make history, taking astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The four-person crew will launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, for a 10-day journey.<\/p>\n<p>The trip will pave the way for future Artemis missions intended to eventually see astronauts set foot on the moon, and the building of a permanent lunar base.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/Technology\/nasas-artemis-ii-moon-mission-including-watch-astronauts\/story?id=131536973\" target=\"_blank\" dir=\"ltr\">here<\/a> about what you need to know regarding the Artemis II mission, including how long it will take, who the astronauts are and how to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artemis II will make history, taking astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The four-person crew will launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, for a 10-day journey. The trip will pave the way for future Artemis missions intended to eventually see astronauts set foot on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}