Apollo Cosplay on a 21st-Century Clock - Why... - March 09, 2026

0:03 Calaroga Shark Media. Good evening. This is sleep from space. The sun has been active lately. We're seeing high magnetic complexity across several sunspot groups with a moderate chance of auroras tonight for those in northern latitudes. One of the many asteroids in our neighborhood, twenty twenty six D eleven swings by today at comparable to a city bus. It'll pass roughly three times the Moon's distance. No threat, just a cosmic passer by Leo. The Lion rises in the east tonight. Look for the distinctive backward question mark pattern.

0:44 That's the Lion's head and Maine Regulus. A blue white star marks his heart. Firefly Aerospace has a Firefly Alpha scheduled tomorrow from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. NASA's latest reboot of the Artemis Moon program comes with familiar language, back to basics, muscle memory step by step, and an explicit nod to the Mercury Gemini Apollo playbook. The agency wants to fly more often, change hardware less, and build up capability incrementally, just like the nineteen sixties. The problem is that Artemis is trying to cause play Apollo in a world with very different politics, partners and rivals, and the gaps are showing up on the International Space Station.

1:33 Twelve people are orbiting Earth right now, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes, they circle the planet two hundred and fifty miles overhead. Tonight's report was compiled by AI from NASA Launch Library and Spaceflight News. See you Tomorrow night,