March 27, 2026
NASA Gears Up for Artemis II Launch Around the Moon... - March 27, 2026
Tonight: NASA Gears Up for Artemis II Launch Around the Moon a Week From Now. 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.
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Calarogus Shark Media Welcome to sleep from space. There is
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plenty of activity on the Sun right now. Multiple sunspot
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regions are crackling with energy, and solar flares could fire
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off at any time. Northern lights chances remain moderate tonight
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for viewers in Canada and the northernmost States. Here's something
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to think about. One million earths could fit inside the Sun,
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which contains ninety nine point eighty six percent of all
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the mass in our solar system. The evening sky hosts
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two bright planets. Venus shines near the horizon as twilight fades,
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and Mars glows steadily overhead until late evening. Rocket Lab
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has an electron on the pad at Mahea Peninsula, New Zealand,
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set to fly tomorrow. The Moon is waxing gibbous, more
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than half lit, and growing toward full. It sets late,
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giving only a brief window of dark skies after sunset,
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before NASA sends its astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina
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Koch and the Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on
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their Artemis two mission around the Moon. The launch team
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at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and teams across
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the country will begin counting down about two days before liftoff.
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A launch countdown contains an asteroid called twenty twenty six
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f U two is passing by tomorrow. It's roughly the
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length of a bus, passing roughly two times the Moon's distance.
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No danger, just a cosmic neighbor dropping by AI helped
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gather tonight's update from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Rest
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easy knowing the universe keeps spinning. Good Night,
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