{"id":14620,"date":"2026-04-11T21:59:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=14620"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:59:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:59:52","slug":"heartwarming-messages-the-artemis-ii-crew-sent-heartwarming-messages-to-their-families-on-the-final-day-of-their-historic-10-day-moon-mission-ahead-of-splashdown-in-the-pacific-ocean-emotional-comm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=14620","title":{"rendered":"HEARTWARMING MESSAGES &#8211; The Artemis II crew sent heartwarming messages to their families on the final day of their historic 10-day moon mission ahead of splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Emotional Commander Reid was the first to speak to his daughters, Ellie and Katey, expressing his emotion and gratitude for their support. Details \ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Artemis II crew sent heartwarming messages to their families on their final day of their historic 10-day moon mission ahead of Friday\u2019s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div id=\"grow24.us_responsive_1\" data-google-query-id=\"\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23293390090\/grow24.us\/grow24.us_responsive_1_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The four astronauts, who launched from the Kennedy Space Center on April 1, expressed how much they loved their children, nieces and nephews, and addressed the next generation of space explorers during Thursday\u2019s call with Katie Britt (R-Alabama), NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, and other lawmakers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2026-01\/260130-Artemis-Wiseman-daughters-aa-618-07c273.jpg\" alt=\"Meet NASA Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover  and Jeremy Hansen\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Artemis II crew sent heartwarming messages to their families on their final day of their historic 10-day moon mission ahead of Friday\u2019s splashdown in the Pacific&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14622,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14620\/revisions\/14622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}