April 18, 2026
The Universe in a Few Minutes — April 18, 2026
SpaceX Falcon 9 launch coming up. Plus space news and stargazing.
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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Calarogus Shark Media. You're listening to sleep from space. NASA
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will roll the largest section of the agency's Space Launch
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System rocket, which will launch the second Crude Artemis mission
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out of the agency's Michewed Assembly facility in New Orleans
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on Monday, April twentieth. What's called the top four fifths
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of the Space Launch System core stage, the section containing
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the liquid hydrogen tank liquid coastal areas see minimal title
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range this week. These neep tides occur when the Sun
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and Moon work against each other. Up on the International
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Space Station, twelve people are orbiting Earth right now, including
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Ola Kononenko, Nikolai Chubb, and Tracy Caldwell Dyson. Every ninety minutes,
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they circle the planet two hundred and fifty miles over head.
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A Falcon nine rocket is heading to space. Later today,
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SpaceX launches from Vandenberg Space four Space, California, sending up
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the Starlink Internet Satellites mission. The booster will attempt to
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land back at Vandenburg heads up for asteroid fans. Twenty
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twenty six. GM one passes Earth today, roughly three times
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the Moon's distance. It's about thirty to fifty feet across
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harmless but fun to track. Look west after sunset to
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catch the thin crescent moon. It'll set early, leaving the
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rest of the night nice and dark. Look west after
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sunset for Venus, our brilliant neighbor. If you're quick, you
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might spot mercury below it, close to the horizon in
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the fading twilight. This episode was assembled using AI pulling
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from NASA and Spaceflight News sources. Thanks, thanks for listening,
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Sleep well,
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