"The widest speed range in the Artemis II mission began before the rocket ever left the ground."
https://spacedaily.com/t-artemis-ii-crawl-four-miles-orion-return-25000-mph/
"Scientists have used orbital information from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites to reconstruct atmospheric density nearly 500 kilometers above Earth."
https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/08/starlink-satellites-atmospheric-sensors/
"The widest speed range in the Artemis II mission began before the rocket ever left the ground."
https://spacedaily.com/t-artemis-ii-crawl-four-miles-orion-return-25000-mph/
"Astronomers have detected an enormous cloud of gas tens of millions of degrees hot surrounding one of the most extreme structures known in the early universe."
https://phys.org/news/2026-08-astronomers-hot-birth-galaxy-cluster.html
"The Starship that’s been adrift in the Indian Ocean since a test flight from Texas last month has finally made it to safe harbor, but its odyssey back to Starbase isn’t over."
https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/spacex-starship-christmas-island-texas-22393511.php
"Scientists have used orbital information from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites to reconstruct atmospheric density nearly 500 kilometers above Earth."
https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/08/starlink-satellites-atmospheric-sensors/
"On Aug. 18, 1868, a French astronomer named Pierre Jules César Janssen discovered helium while observing a total solar eclipse in India."
https://www.space.com/astronomy/on-this-day-in-space-aug-18-1868-total-solar-eclipse-leads-to-discovery-of-helium
"Spherical "Aerobots" may one day swarm the caves of Titan — a moon of Saturn that NASA says is one of the most Earthlike in our solar system."
https://www.space.com/technology/nasa-funds-spherical-aerobots-that-could-explore-the-caves-of-saturns-moon-titan
"SpaceX isn't a launch company anymore."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/spacex-could-make-usd500-billion-in-2027-elon-musk-says
"Like a collage made of layered sheets of colored cellophane, a vibrant new image layers observations of a famous star-forming nebula from NASA space telescopes."
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-telescopes-create-colorful-craft-from-nearby-nebula/
"A new school year brings fresh opportunities to get involved with NASA."
https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/launch-into-a-new-school-year-with-nasa/
"At the heart of Chile’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory is the largest camera human beings have ever built."
https://nautil.us/new-observatory-captures-more-than-half-a-million-galaxies-in-a-single-image-1283526
"The Perseid summer light show is back, and viewing conditions are especially promising across the northern hemisphere."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/09/perseid-meteor-shower
"Picture it: A swarm of tiny robot helicopters descends through a reddish-brown sky, landing gracefully on the Martian surface. What are they wearing? Tiny capes."
https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/nasas-skyfall-mars-helicopters-will-wear-tiny-capes
"The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most prolific and impressive meteor showers of the year, peaks tonight!"
https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/perseid-meteor-shower-peaks-under-perfect-skies-tonight-heres-what-to-expect
GHOST
"Last week I explained how Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity makes time travel into the future possible—and how varied solutions to his general theory of relativity open the door to traveling into the past."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wormholes-could-be-the-key-to-time-travel/
"The Majority Of The Stars You See Aren't Dead. There’s a common misconception that when you’re looking up at the sky, you’re seeing thousands of dead stars who are still sending light out into the universe. It’s a poetic thought, but it’s also false. Most of the stars in the night sky are still out there, shining away. After all, stars burn for millions of years. What are the chances all the ones you see would have perished by now?"
https://www.highpointscientific.com/astronomy-hub/post/astronomy-101/10-astronomy-facts-every-stargazer-should-know
"Venus spins backwards."
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/facts-about-astronomy-space
"A predawn launch by SpaceX on the Space Coast marked the 50th from Florida in 2026."
https://www.nny360.com/top_stories/spacex-knocks-out-50th-launch-on-space-coast-this-year/article_f31395f9-1fbd-5482-be79-db64a90a9ffc.html
"SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 8) from California's scenic central coast."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-falcon-9-launch-starlink-group-17-38-ocisly
"The Chinese commercial launch company Landspace is set for a second attempt at catching an orbital booster."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/chinese-company-landspace-targets-aug-10-for-historic-rocket-launch-and-landing-attempt
"Rover data from more than 20 years ago has revealed clues to the existence of liquid water on ancient Mars."
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/scientist-constructs-big-picture-of-mars-water-from-rover-data
"SpaceX will attempt to make history Thursday night by reusing a rocket booster."
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/spacex-launch-graphic/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"Space exploration enthusiasts have been tracking the unprecedented journey of SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype, which wound up floating in the Indian Ocean after the company’s latest test flight."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/science/spacex-starship-indian-ocean-recovery-satellite-images
"NASA officials say they’re gobsmacked by new images from the Curiosity Mars rover that show stretches of Red Planet terrain covered in honeycomb-like textures."
https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/mars-honeycomb-polygon-surface/
My first flight in space was awesome. I boarded the spaceship with my friends. We took a long nap and when we awoke we were on Mars. It was breathtaking all the wonders we got to see. We stayed in a fully furnished Mars Bed and Breakfast for the low cost of $200 a month.
#BeNoteWorthy
#piccadillyinc
"Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it will continue being humanity’s cosmic home for a very, very long time."
https://theconversation.com/how-will-the-universe-end-269678?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"A possible “exosatellite” has been discovered 73 light years away. Bizarrely, it is roughly the size of Jupiter and orbiting a failed star called a brown dwarf, which in turn is orbiting the red dwarf star CD-35 2722."
https://physicsworld.com/a/discovery-of-giant-exosatellite-challenges-our-notion-of-what-makes-a-moon/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"Since the discovery of the first world beyond the solar system in the 1990s, astronomers have become adept at spotting extrasolar planets, or exoplanets."
https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/astronomers-may-have-discovered-the-1st-moon-outside-of-our-solar-system-or-is-it-something-weirder
"National Moon Day on July 20 commemorates the day man first walked on the moon in 1969."
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations/national-moon-day-july-20
"Beta Pictoris (β Pictoris) is located about 63 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pictor."
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/third-planet-beta-pictoris-system-14920.html#google_vignette
"NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to deliver laser communications capabilities for its Artemis III mission using Starlink, which could give Earthbound viewers a better view of the ship-to-ship transfer in LEO set for 2027."
https://payloadspace.com/nasa-selects-starlink-for-artemis-iii-mission/
"On the same day that SpaceX could launch its massive Starship rocket from Texas, Elon Musk's spaceflight company may also launch its Falcon 9 rocket in California."
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/california/2026/07/16/spacex-rocket-launch-today-vandenberg/90926420007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z118885p119850l003850c119850e008000v118885&gca-ft=53&gca-ds=sophi
"Astronomers have performed detailed surveys of the local neighborhood of stars for decades, but white dwarfs like these have been notoriously hard to find."
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/four-white-dwarfs-solar-neighborhood-14915.html#google_vignette
"Imagine you were traveling at the speed of light, racing alongside a single photon, the fastest possible thing in the universe. What would you see?"
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/whats-it-like-to-travel-near-the-speed-of-light-part-1-the-broken-view
"Lots of excitement for space bubbled up in spring 2026."
https://theconversation.com/building-a-long-term-base-on-the-moon-will-require-extensive-planning-a-planetary-geologist-describes-the-considerations-that-go-into-it-285899
"NASA's Curiosity rover has spotted a strange honeycomb texture on the surface of Mars. But what is it?"
https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/honeycomb-structures-spotted-on-mars-space-photo-of-the-day-for-july-14-2026
"Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the Milky Way galaxy."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/science/sugar-detected-interstellar-space
"A NASA astronaut blasted off from a launch site in Kazakhstan Tuesday along with two Russian cosmonauts as part of a mission to the International Space Station."
https://abcnews.com/International/nasa-astronaut-joins-russian-cosmonauts-launch-international-space/story?id=134745320
"It is full steam ahead at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as teams process and assemble flight hardware in preparation for the upcoming crewed Artemis III mission."
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/07/13/nasas-artemis-iii-flight-hardware-stacks-up-at-kennedy/
"Here comes a classic crescent moon-and-meteors week."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2026/07/13/perseid-meteor-shower-returns-this-week-under-an-earthshine-moon/
"Within just three days of each other, Chinese and Japanese spacecraft got up close and personal with two different asteroids."
https://mashable.com/science/jaxa-hayabusa2-torifune-china-tianwen-2-kamooalewa-images
"In July 1054, court astronomers in China recorded a new “guest star” near Tianguan, the star we now call Zeta Tauri. It was bright enough to be seen in daylight."
https://spacedaily.com/t-nearly-a-millennium-ago-sky-watchers-recorded-a-new-star-so-bright-it-was-visible-in-daylight-for-weeks-and-hubble-has-now-traced-how-far-its-remnant-the-crab-nebula-has-expanded-since-a/
"NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our own, as the agency continues to reveal the secrets of the universe and our place in it."
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-studies-how-planet-survived-death-of-its-star/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now listed by NASA for launch on August 30, 2026, a little earlier than the September 2026 timing that has appeared in some recent coverage."
https://spacedaily.com/t-nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-due-to-launch-in-september-2026-is-expected-to-discover-around-100000-exoplanets-in-a-single-mission-more-than-every-telescope-in-the-history-of-a/
"Where does the Solar System end and interstellar space begin?"
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/new-horizons-watches-the-solar-wind-as-it-slows-down
"The Euclid space telescope has spotted the oldest quasars — the brightest objects in the universe — ever discovered, deepening a cosmic mystery that has been puzzling scientists."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oldest-quasars-ever-discovered-euclid-telescope/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"NASA is delaying the launch of the Swift Boost mission until July 1."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/nasa-to-launch-ambitious-mission-to-save-a-space-telescope-from-burning-up-in-earths-atmosphere
"Astronomers have identified two of the fluffiest giant planets ever discovered, with densities so low they are actually less dense than cotton candy."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260626124659.htm
"Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-puff-planets-lighter-than-cotton-candy-found/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"China’s secretive spaceplane has released an object into orbit during its ongoing fourth mission, according to space surveillance firm LeoLabs."
https://spacenews.com/chinese-spaceplane-releases-object-into-orbit-according-to-commercial-space-surveillance/
"Located 12 million light-years away and undergoing rapid star formation, edge-on spiral galaxy Messier 82 (M82) is a scientifically unique sight to behold, and now NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed previously unseen details."
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-webb-millions-stars-cigar-galaxy.html#google_vignette
"After Earth's moon and Mars, where could humans plant their footprints?"
https://www.space.com/astronomy/saturn/titan-is-actually-a-very-reasonable-destination-for-humans-scientists-start-mapping-out-crewed-mission-to-huge-saturn-moon
"Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have switched on NASA’s newly upgraded Cold Atom Lab, a one-of-a-kind facility designed to improve how scientists explore the fundamental workings of matter and develop new quantum technologies."
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/cold-atom-laboratory/nasas-quantum-lab-aboard-space-station-gets-chilly-upgrade/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"After more than five years of roaming the desolate and dusty landscapes of the Martian surface, NASA’s Perseverance rover has come across some of the most intriguing evidence yet of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet."
https://futurism.com/space/nasa-rover-complex-organic-matter-mars?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=futurism-newsletter&_bhlid=18352664d2d4fc162c9c9d29b2ef6e132ca5c14a
"During the fierce solar storms of 2024, people in places far south — places where no one expected to see auroras — snapped photos of luminous green and purple light rippling in the sky."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/nasa-daring-rescue-space-telescope-090000211.html?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"SpaceX just notched a remarkable launch-dominance milestone."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/launch-monster-spacex-has-lofted-more-satellites-than-everyone-else-in-history-combined?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=61ACBB3C-8283-4A8A-A52F-B9E7A4E99ED2&utm_source=SmartBrief
"One new mission is setting out to study menstruation in microgravity for the first time ever."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/menstruation-in-space-will-be-studied-for-1st-time-with-operation-period?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=61ACBB3C-8283-4A8A-A52F-B9E7A4E99ED2&utm_source=SmartBrief
"For over 20 years, NASA's Swift space observatory has been conducting prolific science in orbit, hunting for signs of gamma-ray bursts — the most powerful explosions in the universe."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/no-one-thought-it-was-going-to-be-possible-a-space-telescope-is-falling-out-of-space-this-is-nasas-daring-plan-to-save-it?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=61ACBB3C-8283-4A8A-A52F-B9E7A4E99ED2&utm_source=SmartBrief
"When NASA’s Parker Solar Probe passed through the solar corona during perihelion encounters at the heliospheric current sheet, its instruments recorded energetic protons at energies far above what existing models of particle acceleration at that location could account for."
https://spacedaily.com/n-nasas-parker-solar-probe-flew-in-and-out-of-the-solar-corona-and-found-a-source-of-high-energy-particles-that-no-existing-model-had-predicted/
"Astronomers have traced a high-energy "ghost particle" back to Shadow Blaster, a star-forming galaxy located 11 billion light-years away."
https://www.space.com/science/particle-physics/scientists-trace-high-energy-ghost-particle-to-the-shadow-blaster-galaxy
"On the morning of 1 July 2025, the ATLAS survey telescope at Río Hurtado in Chile detected an unusual moving point of light against the background stars."
https://spacedaily.com/d-the-interstellar-comet-3i-atlas-discovered-on-july-1-2025-by-a-survey-telescope-in-chile-is-now-believed-by-astronomers-at-oxford-to-be-roughly-7-billion-years-old-meaning-it-was-already/
"Every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars align in a particular geometric configuration that allows spacecraft to travel between them with the lowest possible fuel expenditure."
https://spacedaily.com/d-five-uncrewed-starship-rockets-are-projected-to-launch-toward-mars-during-the-brief-window-in-late-2026-when-the-two-planets-align-for-the-closest-possible-journey-and-depending-on-whether-t/
"NASA on Tuesday revealed the four astronauts who will join the next Artemis mission — a key, two-week flight that will aim to test out various technologies considered vital to putting astronauts back on the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/science/artemis-3-crew-announcement?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"A new study from Caltech's Jim Fuller, professor of theoretical astrophysics, proposes a new model of the final death throes of Sun-like stars that shows how escaping mass from the stars' surfaces leads to a series of little kicks."
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/a-stars-death-throes-involves-a-lot-of-kicking?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"Isar Aerospace has scrubbed the planned June 15 launch of its Spectrum rocket, citing a technical issue."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-orbital-launch-attempt-andoya-spaceport?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=71C7071A-2740-4DAB-BAB0-518EF20CA133&utm_source=SmartBrief
"Scientists may have finally seen the sun telegraph an eruption hours before it happened — and the one caught was one of our star's most powerful explosions."
https://www.space.com/astronomy/sun/scientists-find-strange-changes-on-sun-hours-before-a-powerful-x9-solar-flare-i-was-not-expecting-what-i-found?utm_term=1E9CE68B-BB7D-4199-A76E-9D014B1CA562&lrh=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&utm_campaign=58E4DE65-C57F-4CD3-9A5A-609994E2C5A9&utm_medium=email&utm_content=71C7071A-2740-4DAB-BAB0-518EF20CA133&utm_source=SmartBrief
"WASP-121 b is split between extremes. One side faces its star nonstop and burns at about 2,770 Kelvin."
https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/jwst-finds-rare-planet-with-different-atmospheric-conditions-at-dawn-and-dusk/
"Taking another step toward one of the most complex human spaceflight missions in recent history, NASA on Tuesday provided new Artemis III details and announced the four prime crew members and a backup for the test flight."
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-marches-toward-artemis-iii-mission-in-2027-names-crew-members/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"Astronomers using the JWST have found that exoplanet WASP-94A b appears to have some pretty exotic weather, forming clouds of rock every morning, which then vanish in the planet's night."
https://www.iflscience.com/wasp-94a-b-the-exoplanet-where-clouds-of-rock-form-in-the-morning-and-vanish-every-night-83718
"Understanding the nature of our cosmos requires an accurate map of how galaxies are spread throughout it."
https://www.astronomy.com/science/giant-supercluster-discovered-hiding-behind-the-milky-way/
"Here's a unique view of NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/giant-radio-telescope-sees-artemis-2-astronauts-on-orion-flying-around-the-moon-there-are-4-people-in-those-pixels
"Astronomers have reconstructed the "skeleton" of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)."
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/truly-significant-james-webb-telescope-reveals-largest-ever-map-of-the-universes-hidden-megastructures
"David Grusch is a former United States Air Force (USAF) officer and intelligence official who has claimed that the U.S. federal government, in collaboration with private aerospace companies, has highly secretive special access programs involved in the recovery and reverse engineering of "non-human" spacecraft and their dead pilots, and that people have been threatened and killed in order to conceal these programs."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Grusch_UFO_whistleblower_claims
"National Astronaut Day on May 5th each year celebrates Astronauts as true heroes."
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/celebrations/national-astronaut-day-may-5
"A newly reported population of vast, thread-like structures stretching across several light-years has been identified near the center of the Milky Way, offering a striking new clue about the behavior of Sagittarius A."
https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/05/structures-pointing-milky-way-black-hole/#google_vignette
"Astronomers say they’ve created an entire synthetic universe which uncannily reproduces the properties of our real one."
https://futurism.com/space/astronomers-create-synthetic-universe
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator that pushes protons or ions to near the speed of light. It first started up on 10 September 2008, and remains the latest addition to CERN’s accelerator complex."
https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider
"One of the most remarkable discoveries made by astronomers in recent years is the identification of an extremely strong "mega-laser" signal that has travelled over 8 billion light-years without losing its strength and reaching Earth."
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/astronomers-detect-mega-laser-beam-signal-from-8-billion-light-years-away/articleshow/130218711.cms
"Elon Musk is partnering with Intel INTC 10.56%increase; green up pointing triangle on his ambitious Terafab project, which aims to build specially designed chips for SpaceX and xAI as well as for Tesla TSLA 0.44%increase; green up pointing triangle."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-partners-with-spacex-tesla-to-operate-new-chip-plant-01412554?st=bjztUx&mod=1440&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"Speaking with President Trump, commander Reid Wiseman listed the incredible sights the Artemis II crew witnessed on Monday, telling the president that when the astronauts could see Mars, "All of us commented how excited we are to watch this nation and this planet become a two-planet species," referring to NASA plans to eventually go to Mars."
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/artemis-moon-lunar-flyby/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts have officially struck "moon joy.""
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/when-the-moon-hits-your-eye-from-your-orion-ship-up-high-thats-a-mare
"Sophisticated models predict that a quasi-one-dimensional superionic state of carbon hydride exists under the extreme pressures and temperatures found deep inside Neptune and Uranus."
https://carnegiescience.edu/depths-neptune-and-uranus-may-be-superionic?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record."
https://apnews.com/article/nasa-artemis-moon-flyby-astronauts-e470e962d028d1a4b811cbf31cdacd90?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
"Awe-inspiring new photos captured by the Artemis II astronauts showcase the moon and the interior of the Orion spacecraft, offering a glimpse into their lives in space as they close in on another historic milestone."
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/04/science/artemis-2-images-halfway-to-the-moon
"Christina Koch is ready to make history."
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/an-incredible-privilege-and-responsibility-artemis-2s-christina-koch-is-ready-to-become-the-1st-woman-to-fly-around-the-moon
