Show Notes
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 1 April 2026: Space Show News: * Artemis II mission poised to launch. * The Australian National University is providing laser communications support for NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission. * NASA selects Intuitive Machines to carry Roo-ver, Australia's first Moon rover, to the lunar South Pole region in 2030. Lunar Astronomy Dr Martin Elvis, Senior Astrophysicist at the Centre for Astrophysics at Harvard & Smithsonian, speaking at the 2025 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Sydney, Australia. Lunar Geology Dr Walter Kiefer of the Lunar and Planetary Institute responds to the Moon hoax conspiracy by explaining how lunar geology counters it. Looking back at the Earth from space On the eve of the Artemis II mission, astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson reflects on looking back at the Earth from the cupola of the International Space Station.
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