{"id":3415,"date":"2026-04-02T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/3415\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:41:08","slug":"google-ceo-sundar-pichai-shares-post-as-nasas-artemis-ii-moon-mission-launches-with-four-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/3415\/","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO Sundar Pichai shares post as NASA&#8217;s Artemis II moon mission launches with four astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/google-ceo-sundar-pichai.jpg\" alt=\"Google CEO Sundar Pichai shares post as NASA's Artemis II moon mission launches with four astronauts\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Four astronauts blasted off aboard a NASA rocket on April 1 for a long-waited trip around the moon, America\u2019s first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years. Google CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sundar-pichai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sundar Pichai<\/a> celebrated NASA&#8217;s Artemis II liftoff, wishing success to the four-astronaut crew on their 10-day lunar flyby mission. Pichai shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) writing: \u201cAnd we have liftoff! \ud83d\ude80 Wishing the best to the Artemis II crew on their incredible journey ahead.\u201d In the post, Pichai also highlighted the inspiring view of earth from space. \u201cImagining the amazing view they have, looking down at Earth from space would be a beautiful thing,\u201d he wrote.As mentioned above, Artemis II is America&#8217;s first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years with NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen on board. \u201cToday\u2019s launch marks a defining moment for our nation and for all who believe in exploration. Artemis II builds on the vision set by President Donald J. Trump, returning humanity to the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years and opening the next chapter of lunar exploration beyond Apollo. Aboard Orion are four remarkable explorers preparing for the first crewed flight of this rocket and spacecraft, a true test mission that will carry them farther and faster than any humans in a generation,\u201d said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. \u201cArtemis II is the start of something bigger than any one mission. It marks our return to the Moon, not just to visit, but to eventually stay on our Moon Base, and lays the foundation for the next giant leaps ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Objective of NASA\u2019s Artemis mission<\/p>\n<p>As the first crewed mission of NASA\u2019s Artemis program, among its objectives, the flight will demonstrate life support systems for the first time with crew and lay the foundation for an enduring presence on the Moon ahead of future missions to Mars. The astronauts will take photographs and provide observations of the Moon\u2019s surface as the first people to lay eyes on some areas of the far side. Although the lunar far side will only be partially illuminated during the flyby, the conditions should create shadows that stretch across the surface, enhancing relief and revealing depth, ridges, slopes and crater rims that are often difficult to detect under full illumination. Crew observations and other human health scientific investigations during the mission, such as AVATAR, will inform science during future Moon missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four astronauts blasted off aboard a NASA rocket on April 1 for a long-waited trip around the moon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[4195,4192,4193,4194,608],"class_list":{"0":"post-3415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sundar-pichai","8":"tag-crewed-lunar-flyby","9":"tag-nasa-artemis-ii","10":"tag-nasa-astronauts","11":"tag-orion-spacecraft","12":"tag-sundar-pichai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116333280569372671","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}