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At 7:49 p.m. EDT on 3 April 2026, Orion’s 5-minute-plus engine burn pushed four astronauts out of Earth orbit on a 10-day free-return loop around the Moon—the first human departure from Earth orbit since 1972.
After months of technical delays, NASA confirmed final ‘go’ status and a two-hour window on 1 Apr 2026 (6:24-8:24 p.m. EDT) to send four astronauts on a 10-day, 685,000-mile loop around the Moon—the first human venture beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.
On 2 Apr 2026 a 7.4–7.6 under-sea earthquake off Ternate sent ≤0.75 m waves to five Indonesian coasts, killed one person, and led authorities to issue but cancel regional tsunami warnings within two hours.
Beginning 1 April 2026, Google is rolling out a feature that lets U.S. Gmail users replace the username portion of their @gmail.com address without creating a new account or losing any data.
On 1 April 2026, a cluster of company disclosures—from Nexscient’s $6.2 m Flipside AI takeover to Schneider Electric’s 100-use-case rollout—showed large firms are no longer experimenting with AI but embedding it deep into operations, even as regulators scramble to delay high-risk rules.
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency declared the four-person Artemis II crew and 322-ft SLS rocket ‘go’ for a 6:24 p.m. EDT lift-off on 1 April 2026, the first human voyage beyond low-Earth orbit since Apollo 17.
On 31 Mar 2026, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner released the first post-ban compliance report, flagging Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube for insufficient age-gating and launching investigations that could lead to court action and multimillion-dollar fines by mid-year.
Google researchers revealed that a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer with <500,000 physical qubits could derive Bitcoin private keys in roughly nine minutes—about a 20-fold reduction in resources versus prior estimates—prompting an industry-wide scramble toward post-quantum cryptography.
At 4:44 p.m. EDT on March 30 NASA entered the terminal count for Artemis II, clearing the SLS-Orion stack to launch on April 1 in the first human voyage beyond low-Earth orbit in 54 years.
On 31 Mar 2026, the eSafety Commissioner shifted from monitoring to enforcement, launching formal investigations into Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube for allegedly letting under-16s keep or create accounts despite the December 2025 national ban.
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