Feb. 25, 2026

NASA prepares Artemis II rocket for rollback after... - February 25, 2026

NASA prepares Artemis II rocket for rollback after... - February 25, 2026
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A planetary parade graces the sky this week. Plus tonight's space weather and more.

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, Welcome to sleep from space.

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Asteroid flyby Alert twenty twenty six. See you one, about

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the size of a jumbo jet, passes roughly three times

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the Moon's distance tomorrow. These close approaches happen weekly. Astronomers

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track thousands of them. Right now, twelve humans are living

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in space aboard the iss Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and

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Tracy Caldwell Dyson, among them. The station passes overhead several

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times a day if you know when to look whether permitting.

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NASA plans to move the Space launch System rocket and

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Orion spacecraft for Artemis two off launch Pad thirty nine

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B at the agency Kennedy Space Center in Florida as

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soon as Tuesday. The integrated stack will travel back to

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the vehicle assembly buildings so teams can invent, investigate, and

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correct an issue with helium flow to the rocket. Upper

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stage Engineers began preparing for the look overhead for Gemini's

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twin stars Castor and Pollux. They mark the heads of

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the twin brothers with fainter stars trailing below, like their

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body stretching across the Milky Way. The sun is climbing

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towards solar maximum. Active regions show high magnetic complexity, giving

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Aurora watchers a moderate shot at seeing the northern lights tonight.

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A planetary parade graces the sky this week. Mercury and

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Venus hug the western horizon after sunset, while Jupiter and

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Saturn arc overhead. With a telescope, you can add Uranus

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and Neptune to your count. A Falcon nine is heading

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to space. Later today, SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Space for

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Space California, sending up Starlink Internet satellites.

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The booster will.

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Attempt to land back at Vandenberg. AI helped gather tonight's

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update from NASA and space pace Flight News sources. Rest

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easy knowing the universe keeps spinning.

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Good night,