{"id":801760,"date":"2026-04-16T08:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801760"},"modified":"2026-04-16T08:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:06:30","slug":"esa-artemis-ii-lets-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801760","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Artemis II: let&#8217;s go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>The Artemis II rocket on its launch pad at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center, the day before the first launch window.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 100-metre tall Space Launch System rocket will propel the Orion spacecraft and its crew of four astronauts into space. Once in space, ESA&#8217;s European Service Module will take over, providing air and water for the astronauts, as well as electricity, and propelling the spacecraft in deep space with its 33 engines.<\/p>\n<p>The first launch window opens on 1 April 18:24 local time (2 April 00:24 CEST).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/03\/Artemis_II_let_s_go?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Artemis II rocket on its launch pad at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center, the day before the first launch window. The nearly 100-metre tall Space Launch System rocket will propel&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801760","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=801760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}