Artemis II: Mission Day 9 — Morning Update — April 09, 2026

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Good evening. This is Sleep from Space. Right now, NASA's Deep Space network is tracking Orion closing in on the Moon two hundred and seventy nine thousand kilometers from Earth. A signal from Orion takes zero point nine seconds to reach Earth. The twenty minute virtual news conference will take place with NASA astronauts Read Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Coke, and the Canadian Space Agency Artemis two breaks record conducts lunar flyby four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis two test flight around the Moon made history CDT on Monday, traveling two hundred and forty eight six hundred and fifty five miles from Earth, surpassing the record for human space flight's farthest distance, previously set by the Apollo thirteen mission in nineteen seventy. At its farthest point, crew inside the the Orion spacecraft will have traveled about two hundred andify few save twenty and sixty digital creators and social media users are invited to register to attend the rollout of the third Space Launch System core stage as it is prepped to head from NASA's my Shoot assembly facility to NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Are you passionate about social media and communications? Do you love to create content for an EU work iSER Aerospace has a spectrum on the pad at Andoya Spaceport set to fly tomorrow. Space is Strange.

1:38 There's a planet made largely of diamond. Fifty five cancree E is about twice Earth size and may have a surface of graphite and diamond. This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening, Sleep well,