Artemis II: Mission Day 6 — Morning Update — April 06, 2026

0:03 Caalaroga Shark Media. Good evening, This is Sleep from space. Right now, NASA's Deep Space network is tracking Orion in the vicinity of the Moon, about three hundred eighty six thousand kilometers from Earth. A signal from Orion takes one point three 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, taking time out to send Easter greetings down to Earth. The four Artemis two astronauts closed in on the Moon Sunday, already seeing unexpected detail on the surface and giving scientists a taste of things to come during a pass over the lunar farside Monday evening. As Artemis two approaches the Moon, a NASA science team is finalizing plans for the observations they want the astronauts to perform during their flow. At an April fourth briefing, a representative of the mission 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 tomorrow. The mission is called Starlink Internet satellites.

1:23 The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenburg. Space is strange. The Voyager I spacecraft, launched in nineteen seventy seven, is now over fifteen billion miles from Earth and still sending data back Right now, Twelve humans are living in space aboard the International Space Station, Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead several times a day if you know when to look, taking time out to send Easter greetings down to Earth. The Four Artemis two astronauts closed in on the Moon Sunday, already seeing unexpected detail on the surface and giving scientists a taste of things to come.