Report criticizes delays in Artemis lunar lander... - March 17, 2026

0:03 Calaruga Shark Media, Hello, and welcome to Sleep from space. There are currently twelve astronauts aboard the ISS, including Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. They're traveling at seventeen ey five hundred miles per hour, watching sixteen sunrises every day quick solar update. High magnetic complexity across active regions means a moderate chance of northern lights, best viewing after ten PM looking north. NASA's approach to managing the development of crude lunar landers for artemis has successfully controlled costs but not schedule, raising questions about NASA's desire to accelerate those efforts. Asteroid flyby Alert twenty twenty six DV seventeen, comparable to a city bus, passes roughly two times the Moon's distance in the next couple of days. These close approaches happen weekly, astronomers track thousands of them. SpaceX has a Falcon nine scheduled later today from Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida.

1:12 The constellation Leo takes center stage as winter gives way to spring. Find the bright star regulus, then trace the sickle shaped pattern that forms the lion's head, AI helped gather tonight's update from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Rest easy knowing the universe keeps spinning. Goodnight,