its payload Launch - January 19, 2026
Apple Podcasts 
Spotify 
Castro 
RSS Feed Tonight: Rollout Brings the Dawn of Artemis II. Plus what to see in the night sky.
Portions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other soruces.
0:03 Calaruga Shark Media. Welcome to sleep from space. Solar activity is up. Multiple sunspot regions show high magnetic complexity, so M class flares are possible. Aurora watchers in Canada and the northern US might catch some green on the horizon tonight. This is peak Orion season. The constellation rides high in the south with brilliant series following below. Look overhead for the Pleiades, a small fuzzy patch that resolves into six or seven stars. With good eyesight, a small space rock named twenty twenty six BT makes a close approach today. It's about the size of a house, passing roughly two times the Moon's distance.
0:52 Scientists will be watching launch coming up tomorrow. An electron from Mahea pinin New Zealand. Rocket Lab is sending up its payload Waigh shelves NASA's Artemis. The second Moon Rocket has arrived at the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. Four astronauts will fly around the Moon as early as February sixth, the first crude lunar mission in over fifty years. Thanks for listening, Sleep well,