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A bit delayed but, Artemis II is now at April 1 between 6:24 p.m. ET and 8:24 p.m. ET for next launch chance.... this week! Fingers crossed for no April fools on this one 😄abcnews.com/Technology/artemis-ii-ro...

#ArtemisII #lunar #moon #Artemis2 […]

Wolf sketch , done for practicing fur
#sketch #animalart #penandink
#wolf #moon

NASA Sets Coverage for Artemis II Moon Mission - NASA Editor’s note: NASA will continuously update this Artemis II briefings and mission events page throughout prelaunch, launch, and mission activities.

Gaat het nu eindelijk gebeuren? #ArtemisII launch. #Nasa #Artemis #moon 🌜mission
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Sky chart: 2 positions of the gibbous moon near Regulus, along slanted ecliptic line, and question mark star pattern.

Tonight, the waxing gibbous #moon will be near #Regulus, the brightest star in Leo the Lion. Regulus is the bright dot at the bottom of a backward question-mark pattern of stars known as the Sickle.

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“Just like moons and like suns, with the certainty of tides, just like hopes springing high, still I’ll rise.” —Maya Angelou

#Stunday #Scape #Poppies #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #NaturePhotography #Photography #Moon #Flowers #Floral #arizona

Data From Chinese Moon Lander Shows Signs of Peculiar Radiation "Cavity" Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Email address Thank you! As NASA continues to push for a permanent presence on the Moon, future space travelers will face plenty of dangers, from micrometeorite showers battering the lunar surface to the unknown effects of spending prolonged periods of time in just one sixth of Earth’s gravity. Deep space radiation also remains a major hazard. NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, which is slated to launch as early as next week, will see astronauts venturing far beyond the Moon, reaching the furthest mankind has ever been away from home, and likely exposing them to significantly higher levels of radiation. The fear: such cosmic rays could penetrate astronauts’ bodies and damage DNA or increase the risk of developing cancer. But thanks to recent research by an international team of researchers, there may be a peculiar “cavity” of reduced cosmic radiation that could provide them with shelter. This cavity includes Moon and extends far beyond it into space, and only appears at a specific moment of time in the Moon’s orbit around the Earth, at which point cosmic rays die down significantly. As detailed in a paper published this week in the journal...

Data From Chinese Moon Lander Shows Signs of Peculiar Radiation "Cavity"
->Futurism | More on "Lunar radiation cavity moon research" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Space #Data

Good morning from CT…

#moon #bluesky #sky #redtrees #photography 📷

Historic lunar mission expected to launch this week with Canadian astronaut onboard CTV’s tech expert Dan Riskin breaks down the goal of the Artemis II mission and the pivotal role Canada is playing.

Historic Artemis II lunar mission expected to launch this week with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen onboard.

#NASA
#CSA/ASC
#Artemis
#Moon

www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...

The waxing gibbous moon hangs in the night sky at 87% illuminated.

27 February 2026, Moon at 87%.

Playing a little catch up! Here’s a fairly clean shot from late February. Going to experiment with new techniques in April.

#Celestron #CPC800
#Nikon #D7500
4K ISO-1600 1/1000 sec
~10% of 16,200 images

#SpaceGarbage
#Astrophotos 🔭
#Moon #Space #Colorado

Apollo vs. Artemis: What to Know About NASA's Return to the Moon CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time. As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between Apollo and NASA’s new Artemis program are inevitable. The world's first lunar visitors orbited the moon on Apollo 8. The Artemis II crew will play it safe and zip around the moon in an out-and-back slingshot. Another key difference: Artemis reflects more of society, with a woman, person of color and Canadian rocketing away. While Artemis builds on Apollo and pays homage to it, "there is no way we could be that same mission or ever hope to even be,” said NASA astronaut Christina Koch, part of the Artemis II crew. Here’s the lowdown on Apollo vs. Artemis, the twin sister of Apollo in Greek mythology, as NASA targets the first six days of April for liftoff. Run-up to the moon It took NASA just eight years to go from putting its first astronaut in space to putting Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969, beating President John Kennedy’s end-of-decade deadline. “The Apollo...

Apollo vs. Artemis: What to Know About NASA's Return to the Moon
->Military.com | More on "Apollo Artemis NASA moon missions" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Space #NASA

Beach🌊🌞

One of my safe places❤️‍🩹

#moon #beach #waves #summer #picture #safespace #healing #selfcare

Shot of the #Moon last night, Waxing Gibbous phase.

On this day, the moon is 9.8 days old and 80.66% illuminated with a tilt of 142.198°. The approximate distance from Earth to the moon is 379,315.83 km and the moon sign is Leo.

#Photography #MoonShots #LunarPhotos

'An incredible privilege and responsibility': Artemis 2's Christina Koch is ready to become the 1st woman to fly around the moon Christina Koch is ready to make history. Koch is one of the four astronauts of Artemis 2, which is scheduled to launch on its round-the-moon mission no earlier than April 1. During her career as a NASA astronaut, she has spent more than 300 days aboard the International Space Station, and she performed the first all-woman spacewalk with Jessica Meir. Artemis 2 will make her the first woman ever to go beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). Koch's crewmates are NASA commander Reid Wiseman, NASA pilot Victor Glover (who will become the first Black person to leave LEO) and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen (the first non-American to leave LEO). Article continues below The quartet will spend 10 days in space, if all goes to plan. They will first test their Orion spacecraft in Earth orbit to see how it behaves with its first human crew, then make a trans-lunar injection maneuver to slingshot around the moon and back. Artemis 2 is designed to help lay the foundation for a crewed moon landing on Artemis 4, in 2028. Space.com spoke with Koch in September 2025 during an Artemis 2 event at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Below are...

'An incredible privilege and responsibility': Artemis 2's Christina Koch is ready to become the 1st woman to fly around the moon
->Space | More on "Christina Koch Artemis 2 moon" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Space

NASA's Artemis 2 moon astronauts are 'fortunate' to have a private space toilet - Apollo crews pooped in plastic bags Luckily for the Artemis 2 astronauts, space-toilet technology has advanced a bit in the past half century. The Artemis 2 mission, which is currently targeting an April 1 liftoff, will send four people on a 10-day trip around the moon in NASA's Orion capsule. It will be the first crewed flight to lunar realms since the Apollo 17 mission back in December 1972. The Apollo astronauts did their business in the open, peeing into a roll-on cuff and pooping into plastic bags in the presence of their crewmates. But the Artemis 2 spaceflyers — NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — will have access to a bona fide bathroom. Article continues below "We're pretty fortunate as a crew to have a toilet with a door on this tiny spacecraft," Hansen said in a video explainer about Orion's bathroom that was posted on YouTube last October. It's "the one place that we can go during the mission where we can actually feel like we're alone for a moment," he added. This sanctuary is not very spacious; it's about the size of a lavatory on a small passenger jet, according to Lockheed Martin, which built...

NASA's Artemis 2 moon astronauts are 'fortunate' to have a private space toilet - Apollo crews pooped in plastic bags
->Space | More on "Artemis 2 moon mission toilet" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Space #NASA #PlasticWaste #Astronaut

A blue sky with slightly puffy clouds. The daytime moon is behind the clouds buy not hidden.

A blue sky with slightly puffy clouds. A closeup of a daytime moon is behind the clouds buy not hidden.

Yesterday evening's moon.
#NaturesBeauty
#Moon

⭐ In a few hours time, the Moon will once again pass near the bright star Regulus. Closest approach is at 18h UT on 29 March 2026, with an occultation visible from parts of Asia, Africa, Europe and western Russia. 🔭
More info: in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=...
#stargazing #moon

so awesome:

#nasa #artemis #moon

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KERF is having a bit of an existential crisis between his 2D and 3D selves. 🤖📐

The mission on Foundryon One never stops, but the entry point is simpler than you’d think. It turns out "the other side" is just a photograph away🌌

#urbex #nasa #artemis #mars #moon #SpaceMission #SpaceExploration

Artemis 2 moon mission latest news: Astronauts meet the press, NASA update later T-3 days to NASA's Artemis 2 moon launch NASA is now three days away from the launch of its Artemis 2 mission on April 1, and even though it's Sunday, there's a lot going on. Today at 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT), the four Artemis 2 astronauts will speak with the media to answer questions, but it will be a "virtual" press conference. The astronauts are in quarantine currently at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. You'll be able to watch the Artemis 2 astronauts live on Space.com, so be sure to come back then. At 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) today, NASA will hold a press conference to give a status update on the mission. We'll have that live on the site as well. NASA's Artemis 2 astronaut moon mission is still on track to launch on April 1 at 6:24 p.m. EDT (2224 GMT). Tariq Malik How to watch NASA's Artemis 2 mission With the Artemis 2 astronauts at their launch site for NASA's first crewed moon mission in over 50 years, we're just days away from the historic liftoff. So you'll want to know how and when to tune in for the flight. Luckily, we have...

Artemis 2 moon mission latest news: Astronauts meet the press, NASA update later
->Space | More on "Artemis 2 moon mission launch" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Astronaut #Space #NASA

Can NASA's return to the moon bring a divided America together? America first went to the moon during a year of political turmoil. In a weird coincidence, it's returning at a time when the country is once again fractured. The echoes are unmistakable. On 21 December 1968, three men blasted off on a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. This was the eighth Apollo mission. And a lot hung on its success. The United States trailed far behind in the space race. The Soviet Union had already put the first satellite, the first man and the first woman in orbit. NASA needed a win. The launch also happened in the final days of a year marked by bitter division. The US had suffered its darkest moments of the Vietnam War, with public sentiment turning as the body count rose. There were also the growing civil rights protests, and the assassinations of both Martin Luther King and presidential hopeful Bobby Kennedy. It was a turbulent backdrop to the mission. But Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders orbited the moon, took the photo of fragile Earth that sparked the modern environmental movement, and broadcast a message of peace from deep space, "to all of you on the good Earth"...

Can NASA's return to the moon bring a divided America together?
->Sky News | More on "NASA moon mission uniting America" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Space #NASA

Capture of the brightest moon I ever saw ...
#StunDay #Photography #Astronomy #Moon
#ArtofNature #Sky #ECK

'We work for them, too': Artemis 2 moon mission is for everyone, NASA astronaut Victor Glover says (video) Victor Glover says he wants to listen to all audiences learning about his upcoming moon mission — especially those people who don't usually pay attention to space exploration. NASA astronaut Victor Glover told Space.com that he doesn’t think much about milestones for the Artemis 2 mission, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than April 1 — even though it will make him the first Black person ever to leave low Earth orbit (LEO). His priority, aside from training for a safe mission, is sharing the experience with different communities. Glover served as pilot on Crew-1, SpaceX's first operational astronaut mission to the International Space Station. He spent 168 days in space on that flight, conducting four spacewalks. Glover is also an aviator with combat experience for the U.S. Navy, a former test pilot for programs such as the F/A‐18 Hornet and the holder of several advanced engineering and science degrees. Next up for him: the moon. Article continues below Artemis 2 also includes NASA commander Reid Wiseman, NASA mission specialist Christina Koch (who will become the first woman to leave LEO) and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen (the first non-American to leave LEO). The crew aims to...

'We work for them, too': Artemis 2 moon mission is for everyone, NASA astronaut Victor Glover says (video)
->Space | More on "Artemis 2 moon mission diversity" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Space #NASA #Astronaut

2026年3月29日18時50分10秒に撮影した月、月齢10.4、ホワイトバランスはオート

2026年3月29日18時50分16秒に撮影した月、月齢10.4、ホワイトバランスは青め

2026年3月29日18時50分22秒に撮影した月、月齢10.4、ホワイトバランスは少し赤め

2026年3月29日18時50分28秒に撮影した月、月齢10.4、ホワイトバランスは赤め

2026-03-29T18:50:10+09:00:00
月齢10.4 地心距離0.9919088 (381290km) 輝面率0.860
満ちてきました。雲がかかっていますが、綺麗に見えますね
#月 #天体観測 #moon #photography #fedibird

a photograph of the moon manipulated in post to express the sentiment of well wishes to someone i parted ways with not on the best terms as represented by the words "i wish you well even now", written on the top left and continues in the bottom right of the artwork, it is designed to look like a folded page in a notebook with a strong that goes across the words and the moon signifying a connection between the artist and the viewer, there are tree branches framing the bottom of the artwork; the artwork is in black and white.

i wish you well even now

about my well wishes to someone i parted ways with

#illustration #moon #mixedmedia #blueskyartshow

'We're all on this journey together:' Who are the Artemis 2 astronauts launching to the moon? What does it mean to be the first humans in decades to fly to the moon? The Artemis 2 astronauts will do just that on their historic mission around the moon, which could launch as soon as April 1. They are NASA's Reid Wiseman (the Artemis 2 commander), Victor Glover (pilot) and Christina Koch (mission specialist), as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen (mission specialist). Much of the crew's time is necessarily occupied by training: sitting in simulators, doing practice launch days and splashdowns, and spending hours discussing how to live in their Orion spacecraft and accomplish the piloting and science they want to get done. Article continues below It will be a busy 10-day mission, in which the quartet will be the first humans to fly Orion — and the first people since 1972 to leave Earth's orbit for a trip around the moon. They and their ground-support teams also are aiming to set up for future Artemis missions — especially Artemis 4, which is scheduled to land astronauts on the moon in 2028. In a few words, this makes the astronauts busy indeed. But the crew has also talked about the importance of the mission to...

'We're all on this journey together:' Who are the Artemis 2 astronauts launching to the moon?
->Space | More on "Artemis 2 astronauts moon mission" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Space #Astronaut

The moon.

#moon #photography #capture #photographer #fotograf #foto

'It's all I think about': Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman is zeroed in on historic moon mission Reid Wiseman didn't used to think about the moon, but these days? "It's all I think about." That's a natural pivot for Wiseman, who will command the first human moon mission since Apollo 17 in 1972. He's in charge of the mission and the four humans who will go around the moon and back on the 10-day-long Artemis 2 mission, which is scheduled to launch no earlier than April 1. Wiseman is a retired Navy captain and aviator who deployed twice to the Middle East. He also served as a test pilot at the famed Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland. He was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2009 and already has one long-duration mission under his belt: Expedition 40/41 to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2014. Article continues below Wiseman also served as NASA's chief astronaut from 2020 to 2022. That position requires staying off active flight duty, as part of the responsibilities include selecting astronauts for missions. (Wiseman left that position in November 2022, well before Artemis 2's April 2023 crew announcement.) Wiseman's crowded NASA biography includes some unusual personal touches. For example, it tells us that his wife Carroll, a registered nurse in a...

'It's all I think about': Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman is zeroed in on historic moon mission
->Space | More on "Artemis 2 moon mission commander" at BigEarthData.ai | #Moon #Space

The moon was out this morning and looked very beautiful without the camera shot. But I did try to get the best picture
#Moon #Nature #morning #weather #Michigan. #camerashot #phone #camera

Image shows the first quarter Moon in a dark blue sky with the famous clair-obscur effects of the Lunar X and V circled in red. The alternative X and the L are circled in yellow.

The clair-obscur effects of the Lunar X and V are well known, but there are others visible at the same time. A second X appears below the well known V and further down is an L. These are circled in yellow, with the originals in red on my photo.

#astronomy #Moon #clair-obscur #X #V

Making Canadian history: Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen is ready for his epic moon mission Jeremy Hansen grew up in a world with no Canadian astronauts. Soon, he'll become the first person from his country to fly around the moon. Jeremy Hansen, then a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot with NORAD flight experience, was selected to be an astronaut by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in 2009. He didn't get a seat on a mission until Artemis 2, whose crew was announced in 2023. That 14-year gap sounds long, but Hansen was busy. On top of normal support for other missions, he helped develop tools to fix a dark-matter detector on the International Space Station, he advised Canadian space policy-makers, and he was the first Canadian to manage the training schedule for all astronauts (American and Canadian) selected in the 2017 astronaut class. Hansen is so well-respected that, after his selection for the Artemis 2 crew, then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave him a "geeking-out" congratulations call. Hansen had to wait so long to fly in large part because the CSA contributes a less-than-3% share to ISS activities, which results in an astronaut mission roughly every six years for the agency at current flight rates. Hansen's seat on Artemis 2 came from Canada's contribution...

Making Canadian history: Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen is ready for his epic moon mission
->Space | More on "Jeremy Hansen Artemis 2 moon" at BigEarthData.ai | #Astronaut #Moon #Space