March 13, 2026
Report criticizes delays in Artemis lunar lander... - March 13, 2026
Tonight: Report criticizes delays in Artemis lunar lander development. Plus what to see in the night sky.
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Calaroga Shark Media. Good evening. This is sleep from space
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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 and fifty miles overhead. NASA's approach to managing the
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development of crude lunar landers for Artemis has successfully controlled
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costs but not schedule, raising questions about NASA's desire to
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accelerate those efforts. Heads up for asteroid fans. Twenty twenty six.
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EG one passes Earth today closer than the Moon about
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eighty two percent of the lunar distance. It's roughly the
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length of a bus, harmless but fun to track. The
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worm Moon rises tomorrow as the ground thaws, earthworms emerge,
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sign of spring that gives this moon its name. Solar
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activity is up. Multiple sunspot regions show high magnetic complexity,
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so C class flares are possible. Aurora watchers in Canada
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and the northern US might catch some green on the
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horizon tonight. SpaceX has a Falcon nine scheduled later today
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from Cape Canaveral SFS Florida spring brings Leo into prime
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viewing position. The constellation's brightest star, Regulus, shines steadily in
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the east. Above it, the curved sickle outlines the lion's
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magnificent Maine. This episode was assembled using AI pulling from
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NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks for listening, sleep Well,
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