Artemis II: Launch Day Evening Update — April 01, 2026
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RSS Feed Artemis 2 is on its way to the Moon. Mission status, liftoff highlights, and what comes next.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.
0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. You're listening to Sleep from space. Artemis two set to return humanity to the Moon with launch on Wednesday evening. Recently, the Apollo seventeen Command Module America successfully completed Virgo rises in the east, bringing spring's largest constellation into view. Spika shines like a blue white beacon. Find it by following the Big Dipper's handle in an arc. The Artemis two mission will send humans to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years, on a mission lasting almost ten days. It may be April Fool's Day to some, but to NASA its launch day to send humans around the Moon for the first time in more than fifty years. Fueling of the space launch system is underway for an April first launch attempt of Artemis tuns hstmus Ran two, the first mission to send humans toward the Moon in more than fifty years. The four astronauts will spend more than nine days on board their Orion spacecraft and is poised to pass the distance record set by Apollo thirteen and nineteen seventy.
1:18 Liftoff from Launch Complex thirty nine B is scheduled for Wednesday, April First, that's your space update, compiled by AI from NASA and Spaceflight News. The sky will be here when you wake. Sleep well,