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At the top of the hour an #ArtemisII L-2 Countdown Status News Conference at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL3AyQ766vc - according to the timeline https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-releases-artemis-ii-moon-mission-launch-countdown/ the countdown should begin 15 minutes from now; check https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/ for updates.

The #ArtemisII mission has quite an impact on ... the operation of the James Webb Space Telescope as #JWST operations plan currently assumes roughly a quarter of the usual #DeepSpaceNetwork (DSN) access will be available, which has a direct impact on the number of science visits that can be executed and the volume of data that can be downlinked."

The recent #Artemis flight made me laugh when I recalled this 2022 episode off @… radio with its reference to #accordion spaceflight
“Then comes the unfurlin…

At the bottom of the hour an #ArtemisII Q&A with the crew from Quarantine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_tmJff7LQ. Followed at 18:00 UTC by an Artemis II L-3 Countdown Status News Conference at t-3 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQH21XCsp5U

Hier ein hörenswertes Interview mit Astronaut Alexander Gerst heute morgen im Deutschlandfunk über die heute Nacht gelandete Mond-Mission der NASA, aber auch die europäischen Anteile. #Artemis
Quelle:

I just realized that they are basically flying two eggs.
#ArtemisII #Artemis2

!!! #ArtemisII sur le chemin du retour!
Le Monde – EN DIRECT, Artemis-2 : les astronautes de la NASA sont désormais Š moins de 13 000 km de la Terre, suivez leur retour

EN DIRECT, Artemis-2 : les astronautes de la NASA sont désormais à moins de 13 000 km de la Terre, suivez leur retour
Les quatre astronautes doivent amerrir dans l’océan Pacifique, vendredi 10 avril, à bord de la capsule Orion. Durant ces neuf jours de voyage, ils sont devenus les humains à s’être le plus éloignés de la Terre, avec 406 771 kilomètres de distance, et ils ont survolé la face cachée de notre satellite naturel.

Otakus em todos os lugares rs.
Pelúcia de #Artemis, de #SailorMoon, aparece em sala de controle da nova missão da #NASA |

AH. here is the mission tracker
#artemis #space

Unless you deliberately followed the space program, it wasn’t part of your regular news consumption.
Read more 👉 #Artemis

The little crescent on the right is Earth. Moon in the middle. Artemis/Integrity on the left. Every human being is in this picture.
#humanity #artemis #moon

The stressful final moments of the #Artemis mission... hope all goes well as they fall out of the sky!
Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/nfhDuOHMp0A
16-ish minutes to go!

Reading the Artemis II article on Wikipedia, I noticed the Wikipedia BabyGlobe spinning in space on the side.
Wonderful!
#wikipedia #wikipedia25 #artemis2

All the #MoonBase news from today in one text: #NASA will announce the crew of #ArtemisIII: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-announce-artemis-iii-crew-provide-mission-progress-update/

After spending the last few weeks watching the #Artemis live stream, I brought the family to Huntsville, AL and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. I went to Space Camp and Space Academy when I was a kid, so this whole place is a core memory for me. Time to geek out!
#usspaceandrocketcenter

Schaue den Live Stream der Artemis II Reise.
Großartiges Teamwork. Der Widerschein der Erde hat die Kapsel innen stark erhellt, sodass die Mondbeobachtung beeinträchtigt war. Das Erdenteam hat die Fensterkühlung montieren lassen für die Abdunklung.
#Artemis

The much looked for blue marble photos from #Artemis are of course impressive beautiful but on the other hand I've always loved this feed from Europe's other space agency.
#EUMETSAT

Holy shit you guys we just watched #Artemis go from the plane
(Edit: I posted video in the replies, if that's of interest❤️)
#space #nasa

#Artemistracker #space
https://artemistracker.com/

Artemis II Mission Tracker
🚀 2 days until Artemis II launch window opens! Track NASA's mission to the Moon in real-time 3D. Launch: Apr 1, 2026.

It kinda rubs me wrong for astronauts to be quoting jeebus while going behind the moon. is it just me? #artemis

Is there a version of the #Artemis II stream that only has Integrity & Ground coms & room noise, without any vapid imperial narrative?

The #ArtemisII stack arrived back at the pad today, with a launch on April 1st (Europe: April 2nd) still a possibility: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/03/20/nasas-artemis-ii-rocket-arrives-at-launch-pad-39b/ and https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/03/Artemis_II_rolls_again and many more roll-out pictures in https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasahqphoto/albums/72177720332614865/

Irgendwie geht im Moment das Artemis Gedöns trotz Interesse an Astronomie spurlos an mir vorbei 🤷
Ich habe damals die Mondlandung gespannt live verfolgt und auch die folgenden Apollo Missionen.
Ich glaube die Mondlandung war damals der Grund, dass sich meine Eltern den ersten SW-Fernseher angeschafft hatten.
#artemis2

#NASA's #Artemis II Crew Launches To The #Moon (Official Broadcast)

The astronauts may be disconnected from the Deep Space Network, but I bet that big monolith on the other side of the moon gives them great reception, and doesn't run an Outlook server.
#Artemis

Fun fact: #Artemis is the goddess of quick and sudden deaths, and also the executioner of divine wrath.

A cobertura da #Artemis no Brasil é um misto de pena e vergonha. A imprensa anuncia o feito dos norte-americanos como sendo "da humanidade", e usa a terceira pessoa para falar "dos soviéticos", "dos chineses" etc..
Suco de viralatismo que circunda a lua.

The cable management situation around me and halfway to the Moon brings me some kind of peace of mind 🖖
Watch the #Artemis 2 crew eat, work out and take a shammy bath on way to moon | VideoFromSpace
https://www.youtube.com…

Staying up late to watch the #artemis launch. 🚀

NASA Outlines Preliminary #ArtemisIII Mission Plans: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/artemis-3/nasa-outlines-preliminary-artemis-iii-mission-plans/ - it will be longer than Artemis II and take place entirely in LEO, with a spacer "the mass and overall dimensions of an upper stage but without propulsive capabilities"; summary in https://x.com/SpaceflightNow/status/2054596172338110921

Artemis II reminded me what spaceflight used to feel like—uncertain, human, and a little terrifying.
Not just “cool.” Something more. 🚀
#Artemis #Space

The Moment Spaceflight Felt New Again – Bob Mueller
Artemis II rekindles the wonder of human spaceflight, blending nostalgia, risk, and hope as we take our first steps back toward the Moon.

There is another Artemis tracking page here.
The Canadian version is down.
#NASA #ArtemisII
https://artemis2-mission.com

Facing east from Australia right now, using the app:
#artemis

Truly wonderful that #NASA makes images from #Artemis freely available… I just added this to my #iPad as my wallpaper and it is truly one of the most beautiful lock screens I have ever had! Thank you, NASA!…

"The USA needs to take over the Moon and stop all this phases nonsense. We’ll have a full Moon every night, unless werewolves become a big problem. We might even bring the Moon closer so getting there isn’t such a hassle": Donald Trump as cited in #ArtemisII

So, #Artemis II tritt jetzt gleich in die Erdatmosphäre ein.
https://www.youtube.com/live/nfhDuOHMp0A?si=mgwvD5Lwf3QSNQp7

Didn't follow it all today, but it's interesting to see that many of the plotlines of For All Mankind are being followed up IRL. Oh, and forgive me for being not too excited. I remember being woken up to come and watch Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. B/w and upside down.
#Artemis

Can't remember if I posted this or not so...
Here's The Sphere in Las Vegas with actual NASA graphics of the Artemis II along with the real flight path of the vehicle around the Moon.
To think I just saw The Eagles perform there a few days ago... 😁
#artemis2 #thesphere

Watching the #artemis astronauts interview brought me so much joy. It takes me back to elementary school where I fell in love with #Nasa. I went to #SpaceCamp,

Someone needs to sticker giant numbers on the spacecraft windows so they can be identified reliably. Wayfinding is hard.
#Artemis

No human in my lifetime has been as far away from Earth as the Artemis II astronauts are right now. No one since Apollo 17 in 1972.
They are right now in an orbit that takes them up to 74,000 km high. In comparison, the ISS is in an orbit 400 km high.
Once this phase is over, their trip leaving Earth orbit and traveling to the Moon starts.
#artemis2

Truly amazing!
#artemisII

Solar Eclipse From the Far Side of the Moon
This shot from Artemis II of the Earth eclipsing the Sun is one of the most breathtaking astronomical photos I’ve ever seen. Holy shit. Captured by the A

Artemis II - Return to the Moon: #ArtemisII.

Raumschiff Orion also heute Nacht am Start. Nice.
#ArtemisII

Vor 21 Jahren haben wir über das Wettrennen um das erste MMS vom #Mond berichtet. Dank #Artemis geht da endlich was weiter. MMS sind inzwischen out, aber ein Youtube-Short sollte doch in absehbarer Zeit zu machen sein.

The Artemis II mission also set a record for "most accomplishment with least attention".
Thanks Mr. President. We couldn't do it without you. 🙄
#Artemis #space #history #sarcasm #distraction

OPSEC during NASA's #artemis2 launch

Je kunt zeggen wat je wil, maar de maan reis levert wel mooie plaatjes op...
Artemis II Multimedia: Crew Photos, Videos and Mission Highlights
#NASA #Artemis2

Assuming we can generate rocket fuel up there, I think it makes sense to use the moon to launch missions deeper into the solar system.
Read the full article: The Moment Spaceflight Felt New Again
▸ #Artemis

The Moment Spaceflight Felt New Again – Bob Mueller
Artemis II rekindles the wonder of human spaceflight, blending nostalgia, risk, and hope as we take our first steps back toward the Moon.

They have landed!! #ArtemisII

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Franz Schubert, Truls MŸrk & Artemis Quartet:
🎵 String Quintet in C Major, D. 956: (2nd mvt)
#FranzSchubert #TrulsMørk #ArtemisQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vOqVXQ7fjHWYeN7AN86lE

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a global treasure. Watching his interview with the CBC in relation first to the significance of the Canadian on the Artemis II and on the mission in general is really a delight.
A truly masterful communicator.
His section starts at 4:35
#Canada #Space #ArtemisII

RE: #Artemis mission!

Can someone tell the folks up there in #Artemis to reboot their router? The live stream keeps timing out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RwfNBtepa4

Die Crew von #ArtemisII hat erstmals hochauflösende Bilder der #Erde auf dem Weg zum #Mond veröffentlicht.
Nach dem Trans-Lunar-Injection-Manöver fotografierte Kommandant Reid

Artemis II crew now halfway to Moon as they take 'spectacular' image of Earth
The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.

Eating Steak, potatoes, salad, this wine, and watching the Splashdown of Artemis II
#artemis2 #nasa #splashdown

NASA has finally published a detailled simulation of what the #ArtemisII lunar flyby will look like from the Orion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmQ4546iIvI - happy to see that it matches the two simulations (prepared on my request, assuming an April 1st launch) I had shown on March 30th in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-26-marz-2026/#Mar30 had essentially nailed it. Actual times of key events have recently been added to https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/artemis-2/nasa-sets-coverage-for-artemis-ii-moon-mission/ (under Monday, April 6) - the main question now is how much of this culmination of the mission we will see ... and when. At a press conference Sunday at 22:30 UTC more information is expected.

two Canadians playing key roles right now as this historic flyby happens! Jeremy Hansen of course is in the Integrity capsule and fellow CSA astronaut Jenni Gibbons is the CapCom during that time and most of the active time of the Artemis mission!
#nasa #moon #artemisII

Ah, that was worth the wait. I am going to sleep now.
#Artemis

Apollo, Skylab, and the space shuttle programs all contributed a bunch of stuff that’s helped our Terran lives.
Read more 👉 #Artemis

The #Moon in a perfectly fitting #easteregg shape in the live stream #ArtemisII right now. Two new updates: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/04/artemis-ii-flight-day-4-crew-completes-manual-piloting-demonstration/ and just in https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/05/artemis-ii-flight-day-5-crew-starts-day-with-suit-demo/

Gestern ein wenig #Artemis 2 Streams geguckt. Irgendwie habe ich mir mehr vorgestellt.
Die NASA selbst macht ja das langweiligste Programm, dass man sich vorstellen kann. Bildunterbrechung beim Entfernungsrekord. Minutenlange Standbilder ohne Ton. Interviews ohne Zusammenhang.
ÖRR in DE: Macht nur Textberichterstattung, kein Programm auf ARD/ZDF-Internetkanälen. Zu jedem Drittliga-Fussballspiel ist viel mehr.
Am Ende haben wir "Senkrechterstarter" geguckt. War OK aber auch nur das. Ihr?

"I remember watching a bunch of the Space Shuttle missions, from Enterprise flight tests to Columbia’s first flight, Discovery’s return to spaceflight, and more than a few others." #Artemis

Fresh off their return to Earth, the #ArtemisII astronauts will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 16, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss their historic mission around the Moon: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-host-artemis-ii-crew-postflight-news-conference/

So the #ArtemisII FRR went "go" on all counts, they hope to roll out the stack to the pad again on 19 March and be ready to launch on 1 April at 22:24 UTC - the table of possible launch dates in April https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/artemis-ii-mission-availability.pdf just had another one added for 2 April.

NSF Green Bank Observatory Shares Images, Data From #ArtemisII Mission: https://public.nrao.edu/news/there-are-4-people-in-those-pixels-nsf-green-bank-observatory-shares-images-data-from-artemis-ii-mission/ - radar signals received by world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope tracked spacecraft with NASA’s communications network for historic lunar test flight.

Earth vanishing behind the Moon for the #ArtemisII Orion - only a super-crappy camera caught the scene live. Closest approach to the Moon and largest distance from Earth also just happened. The latter should reappear at about 23:22 UTC and communication regained: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/die-orion-von-artemis-ii-ist-jetzt-hinter-dem-mond/ is covering events now ... and hopefully many *good* photographs arriving in the coming days.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Robert Schumann, Leif Ove Andsnes & Artemis Quartet:
🎵 Piano Quintet Op. 44
#RobertSchumann #LeifOveAndsnes #ArtemisQuartet

The best view from the botched #ArtemisII NASA launch webcast: the separation of the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (with the Orion, not visible) from the Core Stage, seen from the Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter - scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/artemis-ii-vor-dem-start-maps-vor-dem-perihel/ for a sequence of nine screenshots from the whole ascent.

A permanent webcast of #ArtemisII has begun at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs and will first cover tanking and run all the way to splashdown (separate webcasts will cover special mission phases like lift-off). Also live updates will be published on the page https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/ just set up.

What a sad moment when the 24/7 #ArtemisII live stream was shut down at 2:20 UTC ...had it on almost, well, 24/7. ;-) Little consolation prize: the Artemis II Post-Splashdown News Conference in a few minutes on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir2X1-FjDxg

very glad we have Jeremy Hansen on the Artemis II mission. He is a wonderful representative for Canada. Just had some really great words of wisdom for a young First Nations boy which boiled down to listening to the wisdom of his elders and the benefit of their perspective in the world.
It really does seem like a great batch of humans up there.
#canada #artemisII #nasa #humanity

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ludwig van Beethoven & Artemis Quartet:
🎵 String Quartet in A major Op.18`5 (2nd mvt)
#LudwigvanBeethoven #ArtemisQuartet
https://open.spotify.com/track/7l1efkDXbMUxAwe4IKrCAy

Good news from another one of the #CubeSats sent along with #ArtemisII - Germany's #Tacheles has phoned home: https://www.tu.berlin/news/nachricht/artemis-mission-berliner-satellit-erfolgreich-im-all-ausgesetzt (in https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=68539 its highly elliptical orbit),

12,217 pictures taken during the #ArtemisII mission have been dumped at https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-Lightcycle.pl?results=1777772559122361 (thumbnails) and https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ShowQueryResults-TextTable.pl?results=177781480697921 (table), so far without listed metadata or tags. At first glance no entirely new vistas beyond the PR releases out during / just after the mission appear in this vast collection, mostly endless exposure sequences and unlucky sky images - but amateur image processors can now stack and further enhance the Artemis II haul with a vengeance ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThisClassicalLife
Franz Schubert & Artemis Quartet:
🎵 String Quartet No 15 in G major D887 (1st mvt)
#FranzSchubert #ArtemisQuartet

From today's #LPSC #NASA briefing: #AI will play a role even in #Artemis ... The two cited abstracts on the #LunarFoundationModel are https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1930954 and https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1929889

From the #LPSC #NASA HQ Briefing: the four American robotic #Moon landings planned for this year - the Blue Origin HLS demonstrator for #Artemis should go first, as early as next month. (There is a little #VIPER looking at the latter because this homeless rover might fly on a second demonstrator - if they can figure out how to get it from the 8 meters high lander to the surface.)

Just noted interesting parallels between #ArtemisII and Apollo 11 and 12, involving #SolarEclipses, either by the close Moon or by the Earth: during or after each of the three missions the astronauts described these events as their visual highlights. The Artemis II crew has done this several times - and in the post-flight press conference after #Apollo11 Neil Armstrong did it, too, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz6nzutr7RU#t=42m19s in the segment from 42:20 (in the transcript https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED059051.pdf on PDF pages 21--22).
What he was describing is the eclipse just before arrival at the Moon of which I had re-processed the best image in https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26 (and he is mistaking the zodiacal light they saw and photographed with the solar corona, the very same mistake made repeatedly during Artemis II).
Finally, a solar eclipse by the huge Earth observed from Apollo 12 just before splash-down was described by Alan Bean as "the most spectacular sight of the whole flight" while it happened: https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2019/11/24/eine-fette-sofi-fur-apollo-12-durch-die-erde/ (no images of totality were taken but Bean later painted the view from memory). The reason I had looked up the Apollo 11 presser was to see how this famously well-prepared post-lunar mission presentation looked like and when it happened: 19 days after their return.