What is the significance of the Artemis II mission's splashdown?
A record-setting mission nears an end. I'm Carmen Roberts, Fox News. Artemis II is closing in on a dramatic finale, a Pacific splashdown for a historic mission. NASA says the 13-minute re-entry window must go perfectly for the Orion capital.
NASA decided to put Orion on a steeper, shorter reentry path to reduce the time the shield is exposed to extreme heat. Company officials with NASA's prime manufacturing contractor for Orion agree. After the capsule slows to about 350 miles an hour, it will deploy a series of parachutes to slow even further for a splashdown speed somewhere between 17 and 20 miles an hour.
Fox's Jonathan Seary. And splashdowns expected off the coast of San Diego at 8.07 p.m. Eastern time. The Artemis II crew set a record for traveling the farthest into space and was the first moon mission in more than 50 years, even though just a flyby. Iran made demands today that may derail peace talks with the U.S. this weekend in Pakistan.
Tehran says it won't proceed with talks unless its assets are unfrozen and there's a Lebanon ceasefire. Vice President Vance, who's leading the U.S. delegation, had his own demand before leaving for Pakistan this morning.
If the Iranians are willing to negotiate in good faith, we're certainly willing to extend the open hand. If they're going to try to play us, then they're going to find that the negotiating team is not that receptive.
Vance says he expects positive talk since President Trump has given some pretty clear guidelines.
Fox's Jared Halpern at the White House. Stocks ended mixed for the day and up for the week.
With the Nasdaq notching its eighth straight session of gains, its longest winning streak since August of 2024, following March's CPI report, with inflation data rising to its highest level in nearly two years in the wake of the Iran war.
Fox's Hilary Barsky. The Nasdaq gained 80 points. The Dow fell 269. America's listening to Fox News. An alleged Haitian migrant who's here in the country illegally is jailed in South Florida on murder charges. And President Trump posted a graphic video last night allegedly showing the man using a hammer to bludgeon a woman to death in Fort Myers earlier this month.
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