NASA's Artemis II moon mission hits another delay as a helium flow issue forces the SLS rocket to roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building — happening right now on February 24. We cover all the details and what it means for April. Plus: Perseverance just gained autonomous GPS-like navigation on Mars, scientists propose a daring solar slingshot mission to reach interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS by 2085, China's mysterious Shenlong space plane is back in orbit on Mission 4, a packed week of launches including an Australian scramjet test, and a supercomputer breakthrough solves a 50-year stellar mystery.
⏱ CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:30 Artemis II rolls back — what happened
5:30 Perseverance gets GPS on Mars
9:00 The 50-year plan to chase 3I/ATLAS
12:30 China's Shenlong — Mission 4
15:00 This week's launches
17:30 Red giant mystery solved
19:30 Outro
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