{"id":14292,"date":"2026-04-06T06:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/for-artemis-ii-astronauts-pull-of-moons-gravity-is-now-stronger-than-earths\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:54:10","slug":"for-artemis-ii-astronauts-pull-of-moons-gravity-is-now-stronger-than-earths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/for-artemis-ii-astronauts-pull-of-moons-gravity-is-now-stronger-than-earths\/","title":{"rendered":"For Artemis II astronauts, pull of moon&#8217;s gravity is now stronger than Earth&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2026-04\/260403-ARTEMIS-aa-120-d48321.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"anchor-b40680\" class=\"body-graf\">It\u2019s official: The Artemis II astronauts have arrived in the moon\u2019s cosmic neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"styles_subscriptionCTA__LOUeY\" id=\"subscriptionCTA\" type=\"button\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"styles_textWrapper__vxvko\">\n<p class=\"styles_text__daaVB styles_textLarge__qlzwu\">Subscribe to read this story ad-free    <\/p>\n<p class=\"styles_text__daaVB\">Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-65466c\" class=\"body-graf\">The crew\u2019s Orion capsule entered what\u2019s known as the lunar sphere of influence at around 12:41 a.m. ET Monday, crossing into the region of space where the moon\u2019s gravitational pull is stronger than the pull of Earth\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-daec33\" class=\"body-graf\">\u201cThat\u2019s a significant milestone on our mission,\u201d NASA flight director Rick Henfling said Sunday in a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p id=\"anchor-4fdf04\" class=\"body-graf\">The lunar sphere of influence isn\u2019t a physical or&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/artemis-ii-astronauts-moon-lunar-sphere-influence-nasa-rcna266631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: The Artemis II astronauts have arrived in the moon\u2019s cosmic neighborhood. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3512,3460],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amerique-du-nord","category-north-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}