April 6, 2026
Artemis II: Mission Day 6 — Evening Update — April 06, 2026
Evening update on Artemis 2 day 6. Fresh mission news, science highlights, and what to watch tonight.
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. Welcome to Sleep from space. Right now,
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NASA's Deep Space Network is tracking Orion in the vicinity
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of the Moon, about four h three thousand kilometers from Earth.
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A signal from Orion takes one point three seconds to
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reach Earth. After a day in Earth orbit checking out
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systems on the Orion capsule, the Artemis two crew is
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headed to the Moon. Today, four astronauts will fly around
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the Moon for the first time since nineteen seventy two,
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taking time out to send Easter greetings down to Earth.
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The four Artemis two astronauts closed in on the Moon Sunday,
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already seeing unexpected detail on the surface and giving scientists
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a taste of things to come during a pass over
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the lunar farside Monday evening. Space is strange. The Voyager
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I space craft, launched in nineteen seventy seven, is now
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over fifteen billion miles from Earth and still sending data back.
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Launch coming up later today. A Falcon nine from Vandenberg
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Space Force Base, California. SpaceX is sending up Starlink Internet satellites. Today,
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the crew of Artemis two reaches a milestone, traveling farther
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than any humans in recorded history as they orbit the
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far side of the Moon, roughly four thousand miles above
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the lunar surface. You can watch this historic broadcast on
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NASA's YouTube channel today April sixth, twenty twenty six, at
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ten am Pacific, or on NASA Plus. Right now, twelve
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humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station,
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Oleg Cononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them.
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The station passes overhead several times a day. If you
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know when to look, that's your space update, compiled by
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AI from NASA and Spaceflight News. The sky will be
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