April 7, 2026
Artemis II: Mission Day 7 — Morning Update — April 07, 2026
Day 7 of the Artemis 2 mission. Latest crew status, mission milestones, and tonight's sky.
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Calarogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to 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 four hundred to two
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thousand kilometers from Earth. A signal from Orion takes one
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point three seconds to reach Earth. Today, four astronauts will
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fly around the Moon for the first time since nineteen
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seventy two. The crew of Artemis two is closing in
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on the Moon, and around lunchtime will surpass, 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. Fun fact, neutron stars are so
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dense that a teaspoon of their material would weigh about
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six billion tons on Earth. Launch preview Falcon nine to
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loft signess to International Space Station Minotaur four to launch
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from California. As NASA's Artemis two mission reaches its half
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way point, the launch manifest on Earth continues. A Minotaur
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four rocket is set to launch later today from Vandenberg
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Space for Space California, Northrop Grumm and Space Systems is
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behind this one. This episode was assembled using AI pulling
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from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening, sleep Well,
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