April 6, 2026
Artemis II: Mission Day 6 — Morning Update — April 06, 2026
Day 6 of the Artemis 2 mission. Latest crew status, mission milestones, and tonight's sky.
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Caalaroga Shark Media. Good evening, This is Sleep from space.
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Right now, NASA's Deep Space network is tracking Orion in
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the vicinity of the Moon, about three hundred eighty six
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thousand kilometers from Earth. A signal from Orion takes one
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point three seconds to reach Earth. After a day in
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Earth orbit checking out systems on the Orion capsule, the
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Artemis two crew is headed to the Moon, taking time
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out to send Easter greetings down to Earth. The four
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Artemis two astronauts closed in on the Moon Sunday, already
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seeing unexpected detail on the surface and giving scientists a
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taste of things to come during a pass over the
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lunar farside Monday evening. As Artemis two approaches the Moon,
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a NASA science team is finalizing plans for the observations
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they want the astronauts to perform during their flow. At
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an April fourth briefing, a representative of the mission science
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team said they were working to complete a plan of
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observations by the astronauts. On April sixth. SpaceX has a
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Falcon nine on the pad at Vandenberg Space four space California,
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set to fly tomorrow. The mission is called Starlink Internet satellites.
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The booster will attempt to land back at Vandenburg. Space
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is strange. The Voyager I spacecraft, launched in nineteen seventy seven,
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is now over fifteen billion miles from Earth and still
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sending data back Right now, Twelve humans are living in
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space aboard the International Space Station, Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb,
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and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station passes overhead
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several times a day if you know when to look,
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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.
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