{"podcast":{"title":"Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates","slug":"astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676","podcast_index_feed_id":5658676,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5648921/episodes/feed","website_url":"http://www.astronomydaily.io","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/02745632cd7290e11e1db551f5b33f1c.jpg","author":"bitesz.com","episode_count":822,"summary":"Join hosts Anna & Avery for daily Space & Astronomy news, insights, and discoveries. Give us 10 minutes and we'll give you the Universe! For more visit, our website and sign up for the free daily newsletter and check out our continually updated newsfeed. www.astronomydaily.io . Follow us on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, YouTube and TikTok ...just search for AstroDailyPod . Enjoy! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates--5648921/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-06-18T00:17:09.380827+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676"},"episode":{"title":"NASA's Historic Artemis 3 Crew, Early Launch for Roman Telescope, and a Solar Storm Spectacle","slug":"nasa-s-historic-artemis-3-crew-early-launch-for-roman-telescope-and-a-solar-storm-spectacle","published_at":"2026-06-09T10:25:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/nasa-s-historic-artemis-3-crew-early-launch-for-roman-telescope-and-a-solar-storm-spectacle","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676","url":"https://spacenutspodcast.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-astronomy-news","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/track/op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72434251/nasa_s_historic_artemis_3_crew_early_launch_for_roman_telescope_and_a_solar_storm_spectacle.mp3","summary":"In today's episode, Anna and Avery cover six major stories: NASA's historic Artemis III crew announcement, the official August 30 launch date for the Roman Space Telescope, a G3 geomagnetic storm delivering northern lights to mid-latitudes, a worrying air leak aboard the International Space Station, the fallout from Blue Origin's New Glenn explosion and its impact on NASA's Moon programme, and JAXA's H3 rocket attempting a redemption launch tonight. Stories Covered • BREAKING: NASA announces the four-person crew for Artemis III at Johnson Space Center -- a mission redesignated as a low-Earth-orbit docking rehearsal, paving the way for the Artemis IV Moon landing in 2028. • NASA officially sets August 30, 2026 as the launch date for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope -- eight months ahead of schedule. Roman will survey the sky 100x wider than Hubble, targeting dark energy, dark matter and exoplanets. • A cannibal coronal mass ejection -- two merged CMEs -- arrives at Earth triggering a G3 geomagnetic storm, with auroras visible to mid-northern latitudes on June 8-9. • Crew aboard the ISS briefly shelters in the docked SpaceX Dragon on June 5 as a worsening air leak in the Russian Zvezda module's PrK transfer tunnel prompts precautionary evacuation procedures. • NASA seeks an alternative launch vehicle for Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander following the catastrophic May 28 New Glenn explosion at Cape Canaveral, which destroyed LC-36 and threatened the autumn cargo lander demonstration flight. • JAXA launches the H3 rocket (H3-30 variant) tonight from Tanegashima on a test flight -- Japan's first large rocket powered entirely by liquid engines -- following the December 2025 failure that lost the QZS-5 navigation satellite. Links & Further Reading NASA Artemis III crew…","meta_description":"In today's episode, Anna and Avery cover six major stories: NASA's historic Artemis III crew announcement, the official August 30 launch date for the Roma…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":961,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/episodes/nasa-s-historic-artemis-3-crew-early-launch-for-roman-telescope-and-a-solar-storm-spectacle/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-space-news-updates-5658676/nasa-s-historic-artemis-3-crew-early-launch-for-roman-telescope-and-a-solar-storm-spectacle.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}