Jan. 31, 2026
Artemis II Launch Date Set - January 31, 2026
Tonight: Cold weather delays earliest Artemis 2 launch opportunity. Plus what to see in the night sky.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.
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Calarogus Shark Media. This is Sleep from Space. The Artemis
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II Moon mission is targeting early February for launch, sending
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astronauts farther from Earth than anyone has traveled in decades.
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Space is strange. Radio signals from Earth have been traveling
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through space for about one hundred years. Any civilization within
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one hundred light years could potentially detect Us. Jupiter continues
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to shine brilliantly in the evening sky, while Mars is
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becoming more prominent, glowing with its characteristic reddish hue low
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in the eastern sky after midnight. The moon is waning gibbous,
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rising a bit later each night. Early evening offers good
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dark sky time before moonrise. This episode was assembled using
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AI pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening,
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Sleep well,
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