Artemis II: Mission Day 7 — Morning Update — April 07, 2026

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to Sleep from space. Right now, NASA's Deep Space network is tracking Orion in the vicinity of the Moon, about four hundred to two thousand kilometers from Earth. A signal from Orion takes one point three seconds to reach Earth. Today, four astronauts will fly around the Moon for the first time since nineteen seventy two. The crew of Artemis two is closing in on the Moon, and around lunchtime will surpass, 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. Fun fact, neutron stars are so dense that a teaspoon of their material would weigh about six billion tons on Earth. Launch preview Falcon nine to loft signess to International Space Station Minotaur four to launch from California. As NASA's Artemis two mission reaches its half way point, the launch manifest on Earth continues. A Minotaur four rocket is set to launch later today from Vandenberg Space for Space California, Northrop Grumm and Space Systems is behind this one. This episode was assembled using AI pulling

1:38 from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening, sleep Well,