A Falcon 9 Upper Stage Hit the Moon | The Crater, Artemis III, and NASA's Roman

This week, we're covering what's been trending in Space News for the last 10 days...and IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MOON! Starting up a new weekly segment where we gather the biggest stories and launches from the last week, gathered by our AI Assistant SKYE and reported by your human host Spaceman Alex! I'm Alex G. Orphanos, your space science podcast host and your favorite mad scientist.   Tell me what you think of the SKYE Report, and which segments to dig deeper into. Don't forget to catch the NASA Roman Telescope mission - join us live Sunday August 30th!   LIVE Launch Hangout link for Roman here: https://www.youtube.com/live/V3pipbUu3X0?si=TdaEN9pN-SCkFH-P   Be well, stay safe, and stay curious.   SPREAD LOVE, SPREAD SCIENCE, AND STAY CURIOUS.   THE BOOK The Book of Uncommon-Sense 3D Printing is out now in hardcover and on Kindle: https://ag3dlabs.com/book MORE TODAY IN SPACE https://todayinspace.net - We just updated the site! Check it out   SKYE is free and it runs every 30 minutes: https://todayinspace.net   CHAPTERS 00:00 A new segment, and why I built SKYE 00:26 todayinspace.net: the mission clock and live space news 01:49 The brief — 514 items, 49 stories, 18 sources, 9/9 launches 02:58 The Moon is trending: 24% of the week, 11x its normal share 03:43 Twenty days from impact to peer-reviewed paper 03:57 Artemis II crew receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor 05:00 Artemis III: shuttle-veteran RS-25 engines, and the crew 05:31 Zeno Power books a nuclear payload to the Moon 06:22 THE TAKE — the outrage, the fake news, and what we owe the science 09:38 What's next: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope 10:00 What Roman will actually do 10:40 SpaceX's $100B Louisiana spaceport 11:09 SKYE is the machine. I'm the human. 12:09 Clear skies   WATCH ROMAN LAUNCH LIVE Falcon Heavy from LC-39A, no earlier than 7:26am ET, Sunday August 30. NASA coverage opens 6:20am ET, post-launch conference 9:30am. We'll be live on Today In Space. LIVE Launch Hangout link for Roman here: https://www.youtube.com/live/V3pipbUu3X0?si=TdaEN9pN-SCkFH-P   SOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE   THE LUNAR IMPACT <div data-line="52" data-line-type="conte