Artemis II: Mission Day 5 — Evening Update — April 05, 2026

0:03 Kalaroga Shark Media. Welcome to Sleep from space. Right now, NASA's Deep Space Network is tracking Orion in the vicinity of the Moon, about three hundred and fifty three thousand kilometers from Earth. A signal from Orion takes one point two seconds to reach Earth. After a day in Earth orbit checking out systems on the Orion capsule, the Artemis two crew is headed to the Moon. As Artemis two approaches the Moon, a NASA science team is finalizing plans for the observations they want the astronauts to perform during their flyby. At an April fourth briefing, a representative of the mission's science team said they were working to complete a plan of observations by the astronauts. On April sixth, SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Vandenberg Space four space California, set to fly later today. The mission is called Starlink Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenberg. Here's something to think about.

1:11 The Voyager one spacecraft, launched in nineteen seventy seven, is now over fifteen billion miles from Earth and still sending data back. On April fourth, twenty twenty six. NASA astronaut and Artemis two commander Red Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth as the crew travels towards the Moon. The Artemis two astronauts Wiseman and fellow NASA astronauts Christina Coke and Victor Glover, and the Canadian Space Agency astronaut. This is Sleep from Space, your AI curated guide to the Cosmos.

1:51 Sources include NASA and space news from around the world. Goodnight,