April 14, 2026
Gentle Giants of the Solar System — April 14, 2026
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch coming up. Plus space news and stargazing.
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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Caalaroga Shark Media. You're listening to Sleep from space. NASA
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will roll the largest section of the agency's Space Launch
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System rocket, which will launch the second Crude Artemis mission
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out of the agency's MISCHEWD assembly facility in New Orleans
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on Monday, April twentieth. What's called the top four fifths
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of the Space Launch System core stage, the section containing
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the liquid hydrogen tank liquid. Right now, twelve humans are
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living in space aboard the International Space Station Oleg Kononenko,
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Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson among them. The station
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passes overhead several times a day if you know when
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to look. The moon is a slim crescent in the
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western sky after sunset, setting early and leaving dark skies
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for the rest the night. SpaceX has a Falcon nine
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on the pad at Cape Canaveral Space four Station, Florida,
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set to fly later today. The mission is called Starlink
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Internet Satellites. The booster will attempt a drone ship landing
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in the Atlantic. An asteroid called twenty thirteen GM three
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is passing by today. It's about the size of a
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small building, passing closer than the Moon. About sixty seven
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percent of the lunar distance. No danger, just a cosmic
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neighbor dropping by. Venus continues its rain as the evening star,
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shining so bright it casts faint shadows on dark nights.
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Mercury peaks above the western horizon briefly after sunset. The
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sun is putting on a show for solar observers. Lots
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of active sunspot regions right now, which means the chance
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of solar flares stays elevated. Aurora watchers in the far
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north might catch a faint glow on the horizon tonight.
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Sleep from Space uses AI to gather and narrate information
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