{"id":47170,"date":"2026-04-11T01:02:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47170"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:02:03","slug":"artemis-ii-astronauts-have-splashed-down-on-earth-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47170","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II astronauts have splashed down on Earth : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"storytext\">\n<p>\n            <iframe title=\"NASA\u2019s Artemis II Crew Comes Home (Official Broadcast)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nfhDuOHMp0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n   <\/p>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5781327-100\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP STATICHTML\" --><\/p>\n<p>After a nearly 10-day journey that took the Artemis II astronauts around the moon, in front of an eclipse and farther away from Earth than any humans before them, the crew of four have made a dramatic return home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"resg-s1-117104\" class=\"bucketwrap image large\">\n<div class=\"imagewrap has-source-dimensions\" data-crop-type=\"\" style=\"&#10; 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But even with limited space, they can still get a solid workout in \u2014 thanks to a very special piece of equipment.\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/picture><\/a>         <\/p>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKETBLOCK\" -->\n      <\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET IMG\" -->\n   <\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RESNX-S1-5781327-102\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP INTERNALLINK INSETTWOCOLUMN INSET2COL \" --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to get back,&#8221; Glover said. &#8220;There&#8217;s so much data that you&#8217;ve seen already, but all the good stuff is coming back with us.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crew of four, who looped around the far side of the moon on Monday April 6, took photos and made observations as they passed over the lunar surface. The crew is set to bring that data and more back to the team on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Nell Greenfieldboyce and Central Florida Public Media&#8217;s Brendan Byrne contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/10\/nx-s1-5781327\/nasa-artemis-ii-return-earth-splashdown-moon\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a nearly 10-day journey that took the Artemis II astronauts around the moon, in front of an eclipse and farther away from Earth than any&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}