{"id":44889,"date":"2026-02-21T06:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44889"},"modified":"2026-02-21T06:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T06:25:15","slug":"very-successful-day-nasa-completes-artemis-ii-launchpad-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44889","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Very Successful Day\u2019: NASA Completes Artemis II Launchpad Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: \u2018Very Successful Day\u2019: NASA Completes Artemis II Launchpad Test<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">\u2018Very Successful Day\u2019: NASA Completes Artemis II Launchpad Test<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">NASA successfully completed a rehearsal to launch the Artemis II rocket on Thursday. The mission would send astronauts around the Moon\u2019s orbit for the first time in more than 50 years.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cVery successful day. I\u2019m very proud of this team and all that they accomplished to get us to yesterday, and then to go execute with such precision.\u201d \u201cFollowing that successful wet dress yesterday, we\u2019re now targeting March 6 as our earliest launch attempt. I am going to caveat that \u2014 I want to be open, transparent with all of you, that there is still pending work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">NASA successfully completed a rehearsal to launch the Artemis II rocket on Thursday. The mission would send astronauts around the Moon\u2019s orbit for the first time in more than 50 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jorge Mitssunaga<\/p>\n<p>February 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: \u2018Very Successful Day\u2019: NASA Completes Artemis II Launchpad Test transcript Back transcript \u2018Very Successful Day\u2019: NASA Completes Artemis II Launchpad Test NASA successfully completed a rehearsal to launch the Artemis II rocket on Thursday. The mission would send astronauts around the Moon\u2019s orbit for the first time in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[7387,9762,131,22317,3331,3877,76],"class_list":{"0":"post-44889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-artemis","9":"tag-completes","10":"tag-day","11":"tag-launchpad","12":"tag-nasa","13":"tag-successful","14":"tag-test"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}