TYB
>>24372198 lb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iymVtq_T4A
https://x.com/Space_PHD/status/2031978040318923067
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-is-fading-away-leaving-us-to-ponder-over-its-22-mysterious-anomalies-8d1318565f13
https://futurism.com/space/3i-atlas-drink-alma-methanol
https://astrobiology.com/2026/03/a-direct-view-of-the-chemical-properties-of-water-from-another-planetary-system-water-d-h-in-3i-atlas.html
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/11/german-fireballs-15-minutes-of-fame/
https://starlust.org/how-to-spot-comet-c-2026-a-1-maps-in-the-evening-sky-this-week-best-viewing-tips/
https://www.space.com/stargazing/bus-sized-asteroid-will-fly-past-earth-tonight-mere-days-after-being-discovered-heres-what-to-expect-march-12-2026
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/why-are-interstellar-comets-so-weird-part-1-the-strangers-blowing-through-town
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/why-are-interstellar-comets-so-weird-part-2-why-comets-are-like-cats
https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/interstellar-messenger-3i-atlas-could-be-nearly-as-old-as-the-universe-itself-james-webb-telescope-observations-reveal
https://x.com/StefanBurnsGeo/status/2032089065470771691
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrfuYvbM-Rw (Ray's Astro: Comet 3I ATLAS Is BIGGER Than You Think — JUICE Revealed Its True Size Are Recent Fireballs Connect)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dHbZjvLJbc (Chuck's Astro: Live: Let's Capture a Chain of Galaxies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIpWcOaE8YY (Mudfossil University: Jesus and Quetzalcoatl were Both Assoc to Venus the Morning Star…Quetzalcoatl may have been Jesus)
3I/ATLAS is Fading Away, Leaving Us to Ponder Over Its 22 Mysterious Anomalies
March 12, 2026
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is fading away. It will get closest to Jupiter on March 16, 2026 and then head out of the Solar System in a nearly symmetric fashion to the way it came in.
I say `nearly symmetric’ because 3I/ATLAS exhibited a small non-gravitational acceleration, owing to a remarkable system of jets.
The passage of 3I/ATLAS on a retrograde orbit within 5 degrees of the ecliptic plane provided an ideal opportunity for a spacecraft to intercept its path, take a close-up photograph, collect a sample from it, or even plant a capsule full of technology or life-as-we-know-it in its belly and hitchhike it to interstellar space at 60 kilometers per second — twice as fast as our fastest rockets. We missed all of this rare opportunity.
We should aim to do better in our next encounter with a mysterious interstellar object. But given the rare properties of 3I/ATLAS, it is unclear whether we will be given such an opportunity any time soon. So long, our interstellar friend.
The nature of 3I/ATLAS is intriguing because of the following 22 anomalies:
Mass Budget Discrepancy:
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The inferred nucleus diameter of 2.6 kilometers and number density of its parent population (assuming a natural comet) exceed the mass reservoir of planetary disks around low-metallicity stars (as inferred here and here) by orders of magnitude. More details are available here.
Geometric Rarities:
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The retrograde trajectory of 3I/ATLAS is aligned to within 5 degrees with the orbital plane of the planets around the Sun, with a probability of 0.2% (as discussed here).
The Milky-Way disk is misaligned with the ecliptic plane by about 60 degrees. This suggests that the trajectory of 3I/ATLAS may have been planned.
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The arrival time of 3I/ATLAS was fine-tuned to bring it to minimum distances of 29 and 54 million kilometers from Mars and Jupiter, respectively, and be unobservable from Earth at perihelion (as discussed here).
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The perijove distance of 3I/ATLAS during its encounter with Jupiter on March 16, 2026 is 53.6 million kilometers, is very close to Jupiter’s Hill radius, 53.5 million kilometers (as discussed here).
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Analysis of the Hubble Space Telescope image of 3I/ATLAS from July 21, 2025 (as discussed here) suggests that the anti-tail before perihelion must have been in the form of a collimated jet towards the Sun that is about ten times longer than it is wide.
This is similar to the collimation observed in post-perihelion images out to several hundred thousand kilometers. No known comet exhibited a physical sunward jet of this length that is not a perspective effect.
For a technological object, a beam of particles might be used to block the solar wind from impacting the nucleus surface at a relative speed of order 500 kilometers per second.
In addition, the veil of dust around 3I/ATLAS is just of the right column needed to block sunlight from hitting the nucleus surface (as discussed here).
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At large distances, the initial rotation axis of 3I/ATLAS was aligned to within 8 degrees with the sunward direction when it entered the solar system (as reported here). The probability for that is 0.5%.
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The observed wobble of the pre-perihelion anti-tail jet in the direction of the Sun (as reported here during July and August 2025) requires the base of the jet to be within 8 degrees from the sun-facing pole, with a probability of 0.5%.
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The existence of a prominent anti-tail jet towards the Sun on the way of 3I/ATLAS out of the solar system requires a similar coincidence near the opposite pole of the rotation axis (as discussed here).
The fact that a collimated jet appears as the sunward anti-tail both before and after perihelion (while reversing direction at perihelion relative to the direction of motion), has a tiny probability of occurring at random, equal to the square of 0.5% or 0.000025.
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The launch base of the post-perihelion anti-tail jet resided on the nightside of 3I/ATLAS before perihelion and the base of the pre-perihelion anti-tail jet is now on the nightside of 3I/ATLAS after perihelion.
For these bases to be active only when facing the Sun, they must be well insulated on the nightside for a period longer than several months. Heat naturally flows by conduction throughout the body of a natural comet, making this insulation requirement difficult to satisfy.
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The gravitational deflection of 3I/ATLAS by 16 degrees at perihelion (as discussed here), is exactly twice the opening angle of the anti-tail before perihelion.
This coincidence allows the wobbling jet around the rotation axis to generate an anti-tail in the direction of the Sun before perihelion and a counter jet on the opposite pole after perihelion, with a jet opening angle of 8 degrees on both poles.
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On January 22, 2026, 3I/ATLAS aligned with the Sun-Earth axis to within an extraordinarily small angle of 0.69 degrees (as discussed here). At that time its anti-tail pointed at Earth.
Possible techno-signatures:
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3I/ATLAS arrived from a direction coincident with the radio “Wow! Signal” to within 9 degrees, with a probability of 0.6% (as discussed here).
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Processing of 40 Hubble Space Telescope Images from November 2025 to February 2026 by the Larson-Sekanina filter — which removes the circularly-symmetric glow round the nucleus, reveals a system of three mini-jets which are symmetrically separated by 120 degrees from each other (as discussed here and here).
Are these symmetric jets coming the sublimation of pockets of ice on a rock or technological thrusters?
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The non-gravitational acceleration of 3I/ATLAS was not directed away from the Sun but had a substantial sideways component (as discussed here).
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Composition Anomalies:
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Before perihelion, the gas plume surrounding 3I/ATLAS contained much more nickel than iron, as found in industrially-produced nickel alloys, and a nickel to cyanide ratio that is orders of magnitude larger than for thousands of known comets, including 2I/Borisov (as reported here).
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The anti-tail penetrated hundreds of thousands of kilometers through the solar wind and the solar radiation. In order not to be stopped, the dust particles must be much larger than common sub-micron particles of interstellar dust (as discussed here).
However, if the particles are bigger than a millimeter, then they must carry an untenable amount of mass in order to account for 99% of the scattered sunlight around 3I/ATLAS, as observed in the Hubble images.
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Data from the SPHEREx space observatory indicated the existence of icy fragments around 3I/ATLAS before perihelion (as reported here in August 2025).
However, the spectral signature of ice disappeared in the SPHEREx data after perihelion, taken during December 2025 (as reported here), when abundant organic molecules in gas phase, such as CH3OH, H2CO, CH4, and C2H6, were discovered, along with an enhancement by a factor of ~20 in the water production rate.
To survive cosmic-ray bombardment along an interstellar journey that lasted billions of years, these organic molecules must have been buried under a thick layer of material, at least 10-meters in depth.
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The isotope abundances of hydrogen (D/H) and carbon (12C/13C) are markedly different from Solar System comets and suggest an rare birth environment with a freezing temperature of less than 30 degrees Kelvin and a low metallicity (as discussed here).
Possible Bio-Signature:
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The volatility of methane (CH4) is between that of carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO), yet methane was detected in the gas plume around 3I/ATLAS only after perihelion, while CO2 and CO were detected long before perihelion.
This puzzle (discussed here) suggest a strange layered composition of the nucleus. Methane and other organic molecules are known bio-markers. Does 3I/ATLAS carry life on it (as discussed here)?
Unusually High Mass, Speed, Polarization and Perihelion Brightening:
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The nucleus of 3I/ATLAS is more massive than 1I/`Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, while moving faster than both (as discussed here and here).
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3I/ATLAS shows extreme negative polarization, unprecedented for all known comets, including 2I/Borisov (as discussed here and here). This unusual polarization may be related to its unusual anti-tail.
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Near perihelion, 3I/ATLAS brightened faster than any known comet and was bluer than the Sun (as discussed here).
Given these 22 anomalies, the nature of 3I/ATLAS remains mysterious. Even if 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet, there are some fundamental aspects of its physical properties and birth environment that we do not understand.
Many of the above anomalies, like its near alignment with ecliptic plane or the “Wow! Signal”, will be treated by comet experts as chance coincidences.
But others, like the mass budget discrepancy, the prominent anti-tail jet or the symmetric jet structure must be explained by physical models.
It is easy to insist that 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet while ignoring these anomalies. However, it is the responsibility of scientists and NASA officials to acknowledge the existence of unexplained puzzles rather than display the arrogance of expertise while ignoring them.
When 3I/ATLAS was discovered in July 2025, I gave it a rank of 4 on the Loeb Classification scale of interstellar objects (quantified here, here and here), where 0 means a natural comet and 10 means alien technology that poses a major threat to humanity.
Given all that we have learned so far and assuming that nothing unusual will occur near Jupiter, I regard 3I/ATLAS — which showed cometary activity, to be only slightly less anomalous than 1I/`Oumuamua — which had no visible cometary activity and a larger non-gravitational acceleration.
Science is fun as long as we treat life as a learning experience.
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NASA’s Van Allen Probe A Re-Entered Atmosphere
Upfated Mar 11, 2026
NASA’s Van Allen Probe A re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at 6:37 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 11, almost 14 years after launch.
From 2012 to 2019, the spacecraft and its twin, Van Allen Probe B, flew through the Van Allen belts, rings of charged particles trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, to understand how particles were gained and lost.
The belts shield Earth from cosmic radiation, solar storms, and the constantly streaming solar wind that are harmful to humans and can damage technology, so understanding them is important.
Originally designed for a two-year mission, the Van Allen Probes A and B launched on Aug. 30, 2012, and gathered unprecedented data on Earth’s two permanent radiation belts — named for scientist James Van Allen — for almost seven years.
NASA ended the mission after the two spacecraft ran out of fuel and were no longer able to orient themselves toward the Sun.
The U.S. Space Force confirmed that the Van Allen Probe spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere over the eastern Pacific Ocean region, at approximately 2 degrees south latitude and 255.3 degrees east longitude.
NASA expected most of the spacecraft to burn up as it traveled through the atmosphere, but some components may have survived re-entry.
The Van Allen Probes were the first spacecraft designed to operate and gather scientific data for many years within the belts, a region around our planet where most spacecraft and astronaut missions minimize time in order to avoid damaging radiation.
The NASA mission, managed and operated by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, made several major discoveries about how the radiation belts operate during its lifetime, including the first data showing the existence of a transient third radiation belt, which can form during times of intense solar activity.
When the mission ended in 2019, analysis found that the spacecraft would re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in 2034. However, those calculations were made before the current solar cycle, which has proven far more active than expected.
In 2024, scientists confirmed the Sun had reached its solar maximum, triggering intense space weather events. These conditions increased atmospheric drag on the spacecraft beyond initial estimates, resulting in an earlier-than-expected re-entry.
Data from NASA’s Van Allen Probes mission still plays an important role in understanding space weather and its effects.
By reviewing archived data from the mission, scientists study the radiation belts surrounding Earth, which are key to predicting how solar activity impacts satellites, astronauts, and even systems on Earth such as communications, navigation, and power grids.
By observing these dynamic regions, the Van Allen Probes contributed to improving forecasts of space weather events and their potential consequences.
Van Allen Probe B, the twin of the re-entering spacecraft, is not expected to re-enter before 2030.
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/van-allen-probes/nasa-van-allen-probe-a-to-re-enter-atmosphere/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRHW5_OPvxQ (Dobsonian Power: REAL TIME TRACKING OF VAN ALLEN PROBE A UNCONTROLLED CRASH!)
Ain't no sunshine in the hood.
NASA, JPL Moon and Mars Photos with Peter Robbins | CITD 2025
Mar 11, 2026
For almost as long as human beings have been sending artificial satellites into space, we have been sending up artificial satellites which carry cameras.
These invaluable tools now routinely capture the formation of galaxies as well as the surfaces of neighboring and distant planets, moons, and asteroids. We both learn from such photographs and appreciate them for their wonder and beauty.
But among the countless images taken from our spacecraft over the past decades, there continue to be a percentage which NASA/JPL prefer that we not see, and that if we do see, not dwell upon.
These are the images which strongly indicate the presence of structures of varying sorts on the surface of the Moon and Mars, among other planetary bodies. These seemingly in the form of buildings, towers, transit-ways, and artifacts.
In this well-illustrated presentation, Peter Robbins turns, or returns our attention to a neglected but significant area of investigation, this while reminding us that it is human nature to seek out recognizable imagery in the randomness of nature, be it in the form of a cloud shaped like a lamb or a human profile in a rock formation.
The condition, Pareidolia, is important to acknowledge when reviewing such imagery. With the advent of Photoshop, no picture is safe from alterations, and alterations there are some of the NASA/JPL images– alterations which could have been made prior to their public release.
The implications of these images are formidable. An enhanced public awareness of their documented reality has the potential to accelerate the process we’ve come to call Disclosure.
To paraphrase the late, great ufologist and nuclear physicist, Stanton T Friedman, the question is not, do such photographic anomalies represent actual buildings, construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rK4F4Tmbso
http://peterrobbinsny.com/index.php/peter-s-bio
https://x.com/PeterRobbinsUFO
Cardiac Research and Spacewalk Preps Before Cygnus XL Spacecraft Departs
March 11, 2026 2:52PM
The Expedition 74 crew members spent Wednesday studying the cardiovascular system while preparing for a spacewalk to upgrade the orbital outpost’s power generation system.
A U.S. cargo spacecraft is also packed and ready for its departure from the International Space Station on Thursday.
NASA flight engineers Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway kicked off their shift with vein scans inside the Columbus laboratory module.
Meir led the Venous Flow biomedical study operating the new Ultrasound 3 device and scanning Hathaway’s veins while he wore electrodes on his chest measuring his heart activity.
Doctors are investigating space-caused blood flow changes that may lead to an increased risk of blood clots in astronauts.
Meir also partnered with flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and filled out a questionnaire to document their sleep patterns then collected their saliva samples for preservation in a science freezer and later analysis.
Meir later took a cognition test to understand how living in weightlessness affects a crew member’s spatial orientation, visual tracking, decision making, and more for the Standard Measures study.
Adenot and Meir worked together throughout Wednesday readying the Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft for its detachment from the Unity module and release into Earth orbit at 7:05 a.m. on Thursday with the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
Adenot configured hardware that will enable Cygnus XL to be disconnected from Unity then closed the spacecraft’s hatch. Meir set up the equipment that will depressurize Cygnus XL in advance of its departure.
NASA’s live coverage of undocking and departure begins at 6:45 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media.
Meir’s main task, however, was working with NASA flight engineer Chris Williams in the Quest airlock to configure the tools they will use on an upcoming spacewalk to ready the orbital outpost for a new roll-out solar array.
Meir and Williams will work in the vacuum of space to install a modification kit and route cables on the port side of the orbital outpost. The external maintenance work will enable the next roll-out solar array to be installed on a later spacewalk after it is delivered on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
Williams and Hathaway then joined flight engineer Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) and trained on a computer for the Canadarm2 robotic arm maneuvers necessary to support the spacewalkers.
The Roscosmos cosmonauts also worked on their portion of cardiac research adding to the biomedical data scientists from around the world collect and use to understand how living in space affects vascular health.
Commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and flight engineer Sergei Mikaev once again took turns wearing sensors on their forehead, fingers, and toes that sent their blood flow data by Bluetooth adaptor to a laptop computer for analysis.
Flight engineer Andrey Fedyaev began a 24-hour health monitoring session wearing electrodes and cuffs that recorded his heart’s electrical activity and blood pressure.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/03/11/cardiac-research-and-spacewalk-preps-before-cygnus-xl-spacecraft-departs/
https://x.com/Astro_Jessica/status/2031840477352239364
Not sure, it is filled with alcohol so all the giraffes are plastered now
NASA's Northrop Grumman Commercial Resupply Services 23 Departure
March 12, 2026
Watch with us as Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft departs from the International Space Station.
Northrop Grumman’s Commercial Resupply Services 23 mission launched into space on Sept. 14, 2025, carrying supplies and science experiments to the orbiting laboratory.
This mission was the first flight of the larger, more cargo-capable version of the solar-powered spacecraft.
The uncrewed Cygnus XL spacecraft will be clasped by the space station's Canadarm2 robotic arm and is scheduled to be released from the station at 7 a.m. EDT (1100 UTC) on March 12, 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THfwzi1rJ00
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/03/12/canadarm2-releases-cygnus-xl-spacecraft-ending-cargo-mission/
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/03/12/cygnus-xl-spacecraft-departing-station-soon-live-on-nasa/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission/nasas-northrop-grumman-crs-23/
https://earthsky.org/constellations/cygnus-the-swan-milky-way/
Catherine Herridge
@C__Herridge
EXCLUSIVE: @NASA Boss Reveals New Artemis II Launch Plans And Details Ambitious 2027 Lunar Base Start Date; Says Manned Mars Missions And Humans Becoming An Interplanetary Species Within The Next Decade
This week on Straight to the Point I sat down with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman at NASA’s DC Headquarters. In this exclusive interview, the head of the United States space program laid out the future of American missions to the Moon, Mars, the Orbital economy and beyond.
@thelatmg
@latimesstudios_
Straight to the Point: NASA’s Lunar Ambitions, Mars and Beyond
01:05 Artemis II Launch Window
02:45 Taking Astronauts Farther Into Space Than Ever Before
04:00 NASA Now On Track For Lunar Landing 2028
04:50 Breaking Ground On Lunar Base in 2027
06:20 Humans Become An Interplanetary Species
08:00 Mars Timeline: Within Next Decade
10:50 Nuclear Propulsion Technology Is Game Changer
11:30 China Is On A “Sprint” To The Moon
12:15 You Can’t Be Number #1 On Earth and Number #2 In Space
13:30 What Keeps NASA Administrator Up At Night
14:20 President Trump: Build Enduring Presence On The Moon And Beyond
15:25 Reusable Rockets Have “Ignited” Orbital Economy
16:42 Potential For Tremendous Wealth In Space
17:25 Data Centers In Space Next Five Years
18:55 First Meeting Elon Musk
20:05 What Makes Musk Standout: Takes On Most Challenging Engineering Problems
21:03 What’s Next With Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin
22:20 Space X Broke The Monopoly
24:50 Life Beyond Earth: President Trump Declassifies UAP and UFO Files
26:15 Justification for NASA Budget
28:18 “Ad Astra Per Aspera”
29:20 Independent Journalism
3:09 PM · Mar 11, 2026
https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/2031855026923323717
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XekVbe7dxck
NASA to Share Artemis II Flight Readiness Review Update
March 12, 2026
NASA will host a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT, Thursday, March 12, to highlight progress toward the Artemis II crewed mission around the Moon.
The media briefing will take place from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the conclusion of an Artemis II Flight Readiness Review.
The news conference will stream live on the agency’s YouTube channel. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media, as available.
NASA participants include:
Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate
John Honeycutt, chair, Artemis II Mission Management Team
Shawn Quinn, manager, Exploration Ground Systems Program
Norm Knight, director, Flight Operations Directorate
This event is open in-person for media previously credentialed at NASA Kennedy for the Artemis II launch.
To participate virtually, media must RSVP for call details no later than 30 minutes prior to the start of the event to the newsroom at NASA Kennedy: ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov. NASA’s media credentialing policy is online.
NASA is continuing work on the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in NASA Kennedy’s Vehicle Assembly Building before a second rollout to the launch pad later this month ahead of a potential launch in April.
As part of Golden Age of innovation and exploration, NASA will send Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions to explore more of the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars.
To learn more about the Artemis program, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-share-artemis-ii-flight-readiness-review-update/
https://www.c-span.org/event/news-conference/nasa-gives-update-on-upcoming-artemis-ii-mission/441121
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMMAdqMGWA