{"id":25599,"date":"2026-04-02T03:30:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=25599"},"modified":"2026-04-02T05:09:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:09:50","slug":"watch-nasas-artemis-ii-mission-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/watch-nasas-artemis-ii-mission-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ArtemisLogo.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Artemis logo with moon. (NASA)\" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ArtemisLogo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ArtemisLogo-450x262.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ArtemisLogo-590x344.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ArtemisLogo-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ArtemisLogo-768x447.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are traveling to the moon. Yesterday, NASA\u2019s Artemis II launched into space in a long overdue continuation of the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>With four astronauts onboard, Artemis II will spend a day circling the Earth then set themselves on a trajectory to circle the moon Thursday evening. If all goes well, they will travel farther from Earth than any humans have before.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is live streaming the entire 10 day mission and you can watch it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3kR2KK8TEs?si=Pvbmtd3PUy7Lsext\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are traveling to the moon. Yesterday, NASA\u2019s Artemis II launched into space in a long overdue continuation of the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s. With four astronauts onboard, Artemis II will spend a day circling the Earth then set themselves on a trajectory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/astronomy\/watch-nasas-artemis-ii-mission-live\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch NASA\u2019s Artemis II mission live<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[833,142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25602,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25599\/revisions\/25602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}