April 9, 2026
Artemis II: Mission Day 9 — Morning Update — April 09, 2026
Day 9 of the Artemis 2 mission. Latest crew status, mission milestones, and tonight's sky.
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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Callaroga Shark Media. Good evening. This is Sleep from Space.
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Right now, NASA's Deep Space network is tracking Orion closing
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in on the Moon two hundred and seventy nine thousand
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kilometers from Earth. A signal from Orion takes zero point
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nine seconds to reach Earth. The twenty minute virtual news
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conference will take place with NASA astronauts Read Wiseman, Victor Glover,
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and Christina Coke, and the Canadian Space Agency Artemis two
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breaks record conducts lunar flyby four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis
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two test flight around the Moon made history CDT on Monday,
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traveling two hundred and forty eight six hundred and fifty
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five miles from Earth, surpassing the record for human space
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flight's farthest distance, previously set by the Apollo thirteen mission
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in nineteen seventy. At its farthest point, crew inside the
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the Orion spacecraft will have traveled about two hundred andify
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few save twenty and sixty digital creators and social media
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users are invited to register to attend the rollout of
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the third Space Launch System core stage as it is
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prepped to head from NASA's my Shoot assembly facility to
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NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Are you passionate about social media
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and communications? Do you love to create content for an
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EU work iSER Aerospace has a spectrum on the pad
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at Andoya Spaceport set to fly tomorrow. Space is Strange.
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There's a planet made largely of diamond. Fifty five cancree
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E is about twice Earth size and may have a
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surface of graphite and diamond. This episode was assembled using
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AI pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening,
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Sleep well,
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