NASA Will Conduct Second Artemis II WDR on Thursday - February 17, 2026

0:03 Calarogus Shark Media. Good evening, This is sleep from Space. SpaceX has a Falcon nine on the pad at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, set to fly in the next couple of days. The booster will attempt a drone ship landing in the Atlantic. Asteroid twenty twenty six CR two, about the size of a car, will fly past Earth today, closer than the Moon about thirty five percent of the lunar distance. Completely safe, but a nice reminder of our busy solar system. Look overhead for Gemini's twin stars Castor and Polyx. They mark the heads of the twin brothers, with fainter stars trailing below like their bodies stretching across the Milky Way. The Sun has been active lately. We're seeing high magnetic complexity across several sunspot groups with a moderate chance of auroras tonight for those in northern latitudes.

1:00 NASA will conduct a second wet dress rehearsal on Thursday in preparation for the launch of Artemis two. The nearly fifty hour test actually begins Tuesday evening as launch teams up on the International Space Station. Twelve people are orbiting Earth right now including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes, they circle the planet two hundred fifty miles overhead. This episode was assembled using AI pulling from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening, sleep Well,