{"id":801444,"date":"2026-03-31T16:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801444"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:36:33","slug":"nasa-once-touted-the-diversity-of-artemis-iis-astronauts-now-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801444","title":{"rendered":"NASA once touted the diversity of Artemis II&#039;s astronauts. Now? Not so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Artemis II mission crew contains four people &#8212; including one woman and one Black man, both of whom will be the first on a lunar mission. But NASA hasn&#8217;t been talking about these milestones much.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/31\/nx-s1-5766544\/nasa-once-touted-the-diversity-of-artemis-iis-astronauts-now-not-so-much?rand=771664\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Artemis II mission crew contains four people &#8212; including one woman and one Black man, both of whom will be the first on a lunar mission. But NASA hasn&#8217;t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=801444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}