{"id":6725,"date":"2026-04-04T16:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/artemis-ii-flight-day-3-crew-prepares-cabin-for-lunar-flyby-nasa-gov\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:46:57","slug":"artemis-ii-flight-day-3-crew-prepares-cabin-for-lunar-flyby-nasa-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/artemis-ii-flight-day-3-crew-prepares-cabin-for-lunar-flyby-nasa-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"Artemis II Flight Day 3: Crew Prepares Cabin for Lunar Flyby &#8211; NASA (.gov)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Zakrzewski<br \/>Rachel H. Kraft<br \/>Brandi Dean<br \/>James H. Gannon<br \/>Danny Baird<br \/>NASA Communications Specialist<\/p>\n<p>The Artemis II mission is more than halfway to the Moon.<br \/>Christina KOCH<br \/>NASA Astronaut<br \/>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/missions\/2026\/04\/03\/artemis-ii-flight-day-3-outbound-trajectory-correction-burn-update\/\">cancellation of the first outbound trajectory correction burn<\/a>, the Artemis II crew began preparing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/humans-in-space\/orion-spacecraft\/\">Orion<\/a> spacecraft\u2019s cabin for the lunar observation period on Monday, April 6, at approximately 2:30 p.m. Additionally, crew members have been exercising, practicing medical response procedures, and testing the spacecraft\u2019s emergency communications system in deep space.<br \/>The crew is scheduled to begin getting ready for bed soon, and will begin their sleep period around 3 a.m. CDT. The ground team will wake them up to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/artemis\/artemis-2\/nasa-sets-coverage-for-artemis-ii-moon-mission\/\"> begin Flight Day 4<\/a> at 11:35 a.m. on Saturday, April 4.<br \/>View the latest imagery from the Artemis II mission on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/artemis-ii-multimedia\/\">Artemis II Multimedia Resource Page<\/a>. Please follow @NASAArtemis on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nasaartemis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASAArtemis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nasaartemis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a> for real-time updates. Live mission coverage is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA&#8217;s YouTube channel<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Zakrzewski<br \/>Rachel H. Kraft<br \/>Brandi Dean<br \/>James H. Gannon<br \/>Danny Baird<br \/>NASA Communications Specialist<\/p>\n<p>NASA explores the unknown in air and space, innovates for the benefit of humanity, and inspires the world through discovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxPTGFHQzB3bzMtdkpoaTNXTDJRR2QtN3BVbnRrWDd3X3VpVWdHcWZkY25rREZEV1lWTnQ5TlVacXduUlBHZThZWXN0Z0x4MHV4MFlDUkt1dWdWc0tucElncXZ0SDBXdXVtSDZaVDNLT19pSFVOTUo3Ty1Wc2U4M1lHQVdHQ3RKcFk1OER6TXJxNnA0bzZxSmUyVWtUMzRFSlpfU1JIWVVoU0Y2YkE?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph ZakrzewskiRachel H. KraftBrandi DeanJames H. GannonDanny BairdNASA Communications Specialist The Artemis II mission is more than halfway to the Moon.Christina KOCHNASA AstronautAfter cancellation of the first outbound trajectory correction burn, the Artemis II crew began preparing the Orion spacecraft\u2019s cabin for the lunar observation period on Monday, April 6, at approximately 2:30 p.m. Additionally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}