Feb. 17, 2026
NASA Will Conduct Second Artemis II WDR on Thursday - February 17, 2026
Tonight: NASA Will Conduct Second Artemis II WDR on Thursday. Plus what to see in the night sky.
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Calarogus Shark Media. Good evening, This is sleep from Space.
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SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Cape
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Canaveral SFS, Florida, set to fly in the next couple
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of days. The booster will attempt a drone ship landing
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in the Atlantic. Asteroid twenty twenty six CR two, about
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the size of a car, will fly past Earth today,
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closer than the Moon about thirty five percent of the
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lunar distance. Completely safe, but a nice reminder of our
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busy solar system. Look overhead for Gemini's twin stars Castor
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and Polyx. They mark the heads of the twin brothers,
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with fainter stars trailing below like their bodies stretching across
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the Milky Way. The Sun has been active lately. We're
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seeing high magnetic complexity across several sunspot groups with a
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moderate chance of auroras tonight for those in northern latitudes.
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NASA will conduct a second wet dress rehearsal on Thursday
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in preparation for the launch of Artemis two. The nearly
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fifty hour test actually begins Tuesday evening as launch teams
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up on the International Space Station. Twelve people are orbiting
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Earth right now including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy
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Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes, they circle the planet two
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hundred fifty miles overhead. This episode was assembled using AI
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pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening,
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sleep Well,
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