Artemis Astronauts Return From Far Side of the Moon
The video reports the safe return of the Artemis crew after a historic mission that took astronauts to the far side of the Moon, marking the first time humans have operated on that hidden hemisphere. NASA’s Houston control confirmed the crew’s splashdown and highlighted the mission’s technical milestones, including continuous high‑bandwidth communication through a lunar relay satellite and successful execution of surface science experiments. Key data points include a 12‑hour orbital transit, the deployment of a low‑frequency radio antenna for lunar far‑side astronomy, and the collection of regolith samples for Earth‑based analysis. The mission also tested autonomous navigation for future rover deployments and validated commercial payload integration, underscoring the growing role of private partners in Artemis. Among the most resonant statements, the astronauts said, “We will always choose Earth,” reinforcing the program’s dual focus on exploration and planetary stewardship. They also echoed NASA leadership’s vision: “We will build science outposts, drive rovers, and found companies,” illustrating a long‑term strategy that blends government and industry. The successful far‑side flight accelerates the timeline for Artemis III, slated to land the next crew on the lunar South Pole later this year. It also demonstrates that the infrastructure needed for sustained lunar presence—communication networks, commercial payloads, and reusable landers—is now operational, setting the stage for a new era of lunar commerce and scientific discovery.
Wow! Artemis 2 Crew Sees Solar Eclipse During Trip Around the Moon
NASA’s Artemis II mission gave the Orion crew a rare chance to watch a solar eclipse from lunar orbit, a phenomenon invisible to anyone on Earth. During the eclipse the astronauts first wore protective glasses, then, once the Moon fully covered the...
Live: NASA Artemis II Moon Mission Updates as Orion Performs Lunar Flyby in Deep Space
NASA’s Artemis II launched on April 1, 2026, carrying four astronauts on a highly elliptical Earth orbit that ranges from 115 miles to 46,000 miles away. The crew is testing Orion’s life‑support, manual handling, and docking systems while still within communication range. This mission follows...
What’s on the Far Side of the Moon?
The video explains why humanity only ever sees one hemisphere of the Moon and how Artemis 2 will finally give astronauts a direct view of the hidden far side. The ten‑day mission will spend half its journey orbiting the Moon, allowing...
Artemis II Crew Enters “Loss of Signal” On the Far Side of the Moon
On April 6, NASA’s Artemis II crew will experience a communications blackout lasting roughly 40 minutes as the Orion spacecraft traverses the Moon’s far side. The loss of signal is scheduled to begin at 6:44 PM EDT and will end when Orion...
The "Pokey" Parts of the Moon
The video offers a vivid, on‑the‑ground description of a specific lunar region, focusing on its unusually low albedo and the “pokey” texture that distinguishes it from surrounding terrain. Measurements indicate the area’s average albedo hovers around 0.3, notably darker than adjacent...
How Mars Fights Back The Contamination From Earth
The interview with Penn State microbiologist Dr. Karine Bakerman explores whether Mars’ surface material can act as a natural barrier against Earth‑origin microbes. Using tardigrades—renowned for their extreme resilience—as a model organism, the study exposed them to commercially available Martian...
Artemis II Proposes Moon Feature Name "Carroll"
The Artemis II crew has put forward a personal tribute by proposing to name a small, bright feature on the Moon “Carroll.” The suggestion emerges from the mission’s close‑knit astronaut family, who wish to honor Carol—Reed’s spouse and mother of Katie...
It's Official! Artemis 2 Breaks Apollo 13 Distance Record - Farthest-Ever Humans From Earth
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission officially eclipsed the Apollo 13 distance record, sending the Orion crew farther from Earth than any humans have been since the 1970‑year‑old benchmark of 248,655 statute miles. The flight reached beyond 250,000 miles, surpassing the three‑astronaut Apollo 13 team of...
Live - Artemis II Crew Fly Around The Moon
Artemis II marks NASA’s first crewed flight of the Artemis program, sending four astronauts—three Americans and one Canadian—on a lunar flyby before returning to Earth. The mission will orbit the Moon, replicating a deep‑space trajectory similar to Apollo. It focuses on...
Jenni Gibbons Plays Key Role in Artemis II Lunar Flyby
The video highlights astronaut Jenni Gibbons’s pivotal role in NASA’s Artemis II lunar flyby, emphasizing her close work with the mission’s science console and the broader scientific support team. Gibbons describes how she, alongside geologist Kelsey Young and other specialists, has...
Could We Mine Jupiter’s Atmosphere For Fusion Fuel?
The video explores the concept of harvesting Jupiter’s upper atmosphere as a massive source of fusion fuel, focusing on the abundant isotopes deuterium and helium‑3 that could underpin a future fusion‑powered economy. It outlines how giant, fusion‑propelled scoop ships could...
Smile's Journey From Launch to Orbit
Smile, the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer, is set to launch on 9 April aboard a Vega‑C rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. The ESA‑CASC joint mission will first reach a 700‑km circular orbit before firing its thrusters eleven times to climb...
Artemis II Live | Astronauts Prepare for Historic Lunar Flyby | Nasa 24x7 Live Stream | Moon Mission
NASA’s Artemis II mission is now more than two‑thirds of the way to the Moon, with the Orion crew capsule orbiting roughly 200,000 miles from Earth. The crew is slated for a historic lunar flyby on April 6, marking the first human close...
Artemis Daily Wrap: Flight Day 5
The video provides a Flight Day 5 update on Artemis II, now three days, two hours and 38 minutes into its translunar trajectory and having crossed the two‑thirds point toward the Moon. Former Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke appears on‑camera, drawing a symbolic...
NASA Astronaut Mysteriously Loses Ability To Speak In Space | WION Podcast
The WION podcast recounts a baffling medical event aboard the International Space Station in early January, when veteran NASA astronaut Mike Finney suddenly lost the ability to speak for about twenty minutes. The episode, which unfolded just before a planned...
Artemis II Astronaut Victor Glover Shares Easter Message From Space #shorts
The short video captures astronaut Victor Glover delivering an Easter greeting from aboard NASA’s Artemis II Orion capsule as it flies around the Moon, the first crewed test of the program that will return humans to the lunar surface. The crew of...
Two Flat Earthers Get Super Triggered Over the New Moon Mission
The video captures flat‑Earth influencers Mark Sergeant and David Vice reacting live to NASA’s Artemis 2 launch, a crewed lunar flyby that marks the first U.S. mission to return humans toward the Moon since Apollo. Host Simon Dan streams the launch, then...
This Startup Is About to Grow Plants in Outer Space
Interstellar Labs, a 40‑person startup, is turning a childhood greenhouse idea into a space‑based agriculture platform. Leveraging reduced launch costs after SpaceX’s reusable rockets, the company aims to grow plants in orbit, on the Moon and eventually Mars, while also...
Live: Artemis II Update: En Route to the Moon as Lunar Flyby Approaches
NASA’s Artemis II mission entered its fourth day as the Orion spacecraft continued its deep‑space trek toward the Moon. The crew—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen—spent the day finalizing procedures for the upcoming lunar flyby scheduled for Monday,...
This Sector Could Explode Into 2027
The video focuses on the space industry’s technical outlook, arguing that the sector could experience explosive growth through 2027. The presenter highlights a recent 10% rally, a collective move among multiple space firms, and the index’s position at 93—close to...
Smile Is Set to Launch on Vega-C 🚀
The European Space Agency will launch the Smile satellite on a Vega‑C rocket, placing it initially in a 700 km circular orbit before it maneuvers into a highly elliptical trajectory over the North Pole. Smile carries four instruments designed to monitor...
Interstellar Banking - The Galactic Financial System
The video explores how banking must evolve when transactions span light‑years, turning the familiar instant settlement model into a centuries‑long choreography. It asks what money looks like when a payment may arrive after the civilization that issued it has vanished,...
Artemis II Passes Halfway Point to Moon
The video reports that NASA’s Artemis II mission has passed the halfway point to the Moon, now roughly 250,000 miles from Earth. The crew lifted off from Kennedy Space Center’s LC‑39B early in a two‑hour window, despite a last‑minute battery glitch...
Black Hat USA 2025 | Burning, Trashing, Spacecraft Crashing
The Black Hat USA 2025 session, led by Mileno Star and Andre of Vision Space, highlighted the growing cyber‑risk landscape for space systems. With commercial constellations such as Starlink and OneWeb proliferating alongside renewed military satellite launches, the orbital environment now presents a...
Scientists Are Working to Spot 'City Killer' Asteroids Before They Hit
The video spotlights NASA’s upcoming Near‑Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor, a space‑based infrared telescope slated for launch in 2027 to hunt down asteroids capable of flattening a city. The initiative stems from a 2005 congressional directive that required the agency to...
Artemis 2 Crew Reports Burning Smell From Orion's Space Toilet
The Artemis 2 crew reported a distinct burning smell emanating from Orion’s hygiene bay, specifically the space‑toilet system, while the spacecraft is roughly halfway to the Moon, about 134,000 miles from Earth. Mission control logged the observation during a routine status...
Chinese Rover on the Moon Will Connect Artemis II Crew to Earth
The video discusses NASA’s Artemis II mission, which will send astronauts around the Moon’s far side on a figure‑eight trajectory reminiscent of Apollo 8, and highlights the role of a Chinese relay satellite in maintaining contact. Mission controllers performed a service‑unit burn to...
LIVE - Jeremy Hansen Phones Home for the First Time From the Artemis II Mission
The Canadian Space Agency hosted the first live Earth‑to‑space transmission with astronaut Jeremy Hansen on flight day three of NASA’s Artemis II mission, marking Canada’s inaugural in‑flight interview as the crew heads toward the Moon. After a flawless launch on April 1, the...
Watch the Artemis 2 Crew Eat, Work Out and Take a Shammy Bath on Way to Moon
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission streamed a live view inside the Orion spacecraft, showing commander Reid Wiseman, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen and pilot Victor Glover as they eat, exercise and troubleshoot equipment on the way to the Moon. The crew spent part of...
Jet-Powered Comet // Artemis 2 Launched // NO-Dark-Matter Galaxy
The video covers a roundup of this week’s biggest space headlines, headlined by the launch of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, a crewed Orion flight that will perform a lunar flyby and return to Earth in about ten days. Artemis 2 lifted off from...
'What an Amazing Shot': NASA Astronaut's Photos Released
NASA released a set of striking images captured by astronaut Reid Wiseman from the Orion crew capsule as it headed toward the Moon, offering a rare backlit view of Earth from deep space. The photos reveal a backlit Earth framed by...
Artemis || Mission Update From NASA
NASA released a status update on Artemis II, the agency’s first crewed lunar‑orbit mission slated for a ten‑day flight around the Moon. The mission will launch the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, carrying four astronauts on a...
Starship Flight 12 Delayed AGAIN, Artemis Astronauts Will Fly By Moon on Monday
The video reports two major space‑flight updates: SpaceX’s Starship Flight 12 has been pushed back beyond April, and NASA’s Artemis 2 mission successfully performed its trans‑lunar injection, putting the crew on a lunar flyby scheduled for Monday. Elon Musk’s first public comment on...
Are Orbital Data Centers All Hype, or an Actual AI Infrastructure Solution? L Equity Podcast
The Equity Techrunch podcast opened with a quick recap of Disney’s Olaf robot mishap before turning to the week’s biggest financing news: OpenAI’s $122 billion private round that pushes its post‑money valuation to $852 billion, and Whoop’s $575 million raise at a $10.1 billion...
Space Policy Edition: Return to Launch — Cape Canaveral's Unlikely History - Planetary Radio
The episode spotlights Steven C. Smith’s new book *Return to Launch*, a deep dive into the evolution of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral from Cold‑War missile testing to today’s commercial and SLS era. Smith, a former visitor‑complex communicator, explains...
Artemis II Crew Hails ‘Herculean Effort’ After Leaving Earth’s Orbit | WSJ News
The Wall Street Journal video captures the Artemis II crew’s reflections moments after the Orion capsule completed its trans‑lunar injection, leaving Earth’s orbit for the first time since the Apollo era. Astronauts describe the launch as a “herculean effort,” noting the sheer...
Moon Mission Day 2: Leaving Earth’s Orbit and Fixing Toilets
Day two of NASA’s Artemis II mission saw the Orion crew break free of low‑Earth orbit, becoming the first humans since Apollo 17 in 1972 to travel beyond Earth’s gravitational embrace on a lunar trajectory. From roughly 26,000 miles out, the astronauts marveled at...
Reasons to Return to The Moon, WW3 and The Kessler Syndrome, Time Delay Cosmography | Q&A 411
The latest episode of the Question Show tackled a range of frontier topics, from novel cosmological probes and the practicalities of a permanent lunar outpost to the strategic dangers of anti‑satellite warfare and the presence of dark matter in our...
Artemis II: Will Humans Go to Mars After We've Returned to the Moon?
The video examines NASA’s Artemis II program as a stepping‑stone toward sending humans to Mars, questioning the realism of a rapid transition from lunar return to interplanetary travel. It contrasts the Moon’s two‑day round‑trip and near‑real‑time communication with the nine‑month one‑way...
Artemis II Launch: How Space Race Is the ‘New Gold Rush’
NASA’s Artemis II mission launched, becoming the first crewed journey beyond low‑Earth orbit in over 50 years. The flight showcases America’s renewed ambition to return humans to the Moon and eventually Mars. Beyond the celebration, the launch underscores a broader geopolitical contest...
Meet the 8-Year-Old Who Designed Official Moon Mascot
NASA selected an 8‑year‑old’s design as the official zero‑gravity indicator for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, naming the plush mascot “Ryleigh.” The mascot will be carried aboard the Orion spacecraft to visually confirm when the crew reaches weightlessness on their lunar...
Smile: A Global Answer to a Global Mystery
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have teamed up on the SMILE mission, the first project to capture images and video of Earth’s magnetosphere as solar wind collides with it. Four onboard instruments will record...
SpaceX Launches Starlink Satellites Morning After Artemis 2 Blasts Off
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 lifted off early Thursday morning, deploying a fresh batch of Starlink broadband satellites just hours after NASA’s Artemis 2 crew‑mission rocket cleared the pad. The launch, timed to follow the historic lunar test flight, underscores SpaceX’s ability to maintain...
The Space Habitat Diaspora – Humanity Spreads Without Planets
The video argues that humanity’s next frontier will be built, not discovered, as space habitats replace planets as the primary venue for settlement. Instead of hunting for Earth‑like worlds, engineers will construct modular, rotating structures in orbit that provide...
"GO, GO!" See Our Reaction to NASA's Epic Artemis 2 Rocket Launch to the Moon
The video captures a live reaction to NASA’s Artemis 2 launch, the first crewed flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft, as it blasted off toward the Moon. The launch demonstrated the SLS’s record‑breaking thrust, lifting the 70‑ton Orion...
Live: Nasa’s Artemis II Takes Humanity Back to the Moon
NASA’s Artemis II mission launched astronauts on a historic voyage around the Moon’s far side, marking the first crewed lunar flight since Apollo 17 in 1972. The Orion crew capsule, propelled by the Space Launch System, will spend several days testing life‑support,...
Artemis II Launch | Sky News Special Programme
Artemis II lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, carrying four astronauts on NASA’s first crewed mission beyond low‑Earth orbit since the Apollo era. The Space Launch System’s powerful RS‑25 engines and solid boosters propelled the Orion capsule, dubbed “Integrity,”...
Artemis II: Journey to the Moon Begins
Artemis II lifted off on 2 April at 00:35 CEST, marking the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972. The mission carries four NASA astronauts aboard Orion, which is powered and sustained by ESA’s European Service Module (ESM). The ESM provides propulsion,...
Artemis Launch From Cocoa Beach, FL! Taken by My Birth Mom, Sally!
The video captures the Artemis program’s latest launch from Cocoa Beach, Florida, filmed by the creator’s birth mother, Sally, offering a personal viewpoint of the event. The rocket’s ignition produced a brilliant plume and a thunderous roar, with the footage showing...
