{"id":8003,"date":"2026-04-12T14:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/8003\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T14:27:13","slug":"watch-the-artemis-ii-astronauts-speak-about-their-historic-moon-mission-itv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/8003\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Artemis II astronauts speak about their historic moon mission | ITV News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Watch the Artemis II astronauts speak about their historic moon mission | ITV News\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e0zD6hphF2A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWatch the Artemis II astronauts speak about their historic moon mission | ITV News<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe four Artemis II mission astronauts delivered their first public remarks\u00a0since splashing back down to earth on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Commander\u00a0Reid Wiseman, Pilot\u00a0Victor Glover, with Mission Specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen spoke in Ellington Field, Houston &#8211; nearby NASA&#8217;s Johnson Space Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Artemis II\u2019s astronauts completed the first lunar voyage in more than half a century, landing safely in the Pacific Ocean. The four astronauts have set NASA up for a moon landing by another crew in just two years and a future permanent moon base within the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Their Orion capsule, dubbed &#8216;Integrity&#8217;, made the entire plunge on autopilot. The lunar cruiser hit the atmosphere travelling at 33 times the speed of sound.<\/p>\n<p>The last time NASA and the Defence Department teamed up for a lunar crew\u2019s reentry was Apollo 17 in 1972.<\/p>\n<p>Koch became the first woman to fly to the moon, Glover the first Black astronaut, and Hansen the first non-US citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures provided by NASA.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nFor more of the biggest news stories in the UK and around the world, visit the ITV News YouTube channel: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Subscribe to ITV News In Full on YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ITVNewsInFull\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at: http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0Follow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch the Artemis II astronauts speak about their historic moon mission | ITV News The four Artemis II&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11348,4625,11350,10524,11346,11328,11344,11345,11352,11347,2091,11354,306,380,379,1885,11827,4630,299,11353,297,4626,11828,11351,11349,304,319,4641,305],"class_list":{"0":"post-8003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-itv-news","8":"tag-apollo-1","9":"tag-artemis-2","10":"tag-artemis-3","11":"tag-artemis-crew","12":"tag-artemis-landing","13":"tag-artemis-live","14":"tag-artermis-ii","15":"tag-artermis-landing","16":"tag-artermis-launch","17":"tag-artermis-live","18":"tag-astronauts","19":"tag-carroll-crater","20":"tag-christina-koch","21":"tag-itv","22":"tag-itv-news","23":"tag-jared-isaacman","24":"tag-mission-specialist","25":"tag-moon-landing","26":"tag-moon-mission","27":"tag-moon-mission-landing","28":"tag-nasa","29":"tag-nasa-artemis-ii","30":"tag-nasa-press-conference","31":"tag-nasa-space-centre","32":"tag-neil-armstrong","33":"tag-reid-wiseman","34":"tag-rocket-launch","35":"tag-space-news","36":"tag-victor-glover"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116392212006568680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}