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Chapter 1: What happened during the Artemis II astronauts' splashdown?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey.
Let's take a journey. We are stable one for green crew members.
Houston copies all. Commander Reid Wiseman telling NASA Mission Control in Houston that all four Artemis II astronauts are well after safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.
Upon reentering the Earth's atmosphere, the Orion capsule had to withstand predicted temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit and decelerate from nearly 25,000 miles per hour to a gentle 20 miles per hour or so before splashdown. NPR's Nell Greenfield-Boyce.
There's a great sense of relief. I mean, I think everybody watching this return to Earth was sort of, you know, a little tense, a little nervous. Even the NASA officials admitted that in a briefing the other night. And so, you know, reentering the Earth's atmosphere was one of the most risky parts of the mission.
The crew of three Americans and one Canadian set a distance record for human space travel flying around the moon.
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Chapter 2: How did the Orion capsule survive reentry into Earth's atmosphere?
They captured views never before seen by the human eye. It's America's first lunar mission in more than 50 years. A top White House official is leaving his post as Republicans prepare for what could be a difficult midterm election. NPR's Tamara Keith reports President Trump announced the move on social media.
Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair has been a top political operative inside the Trump White House. Now he'll be working to help Trump and congressional Republicans from the outside, where there are fewer limitations on what he can do and say. Moving a top deputy is a sign Trump wants to play a central role in the upcoming midterm elections.
In a post on True Social, Trump said Blair is one of the brightest political minds in the country who will help Republicans, quote, defy longstanding history and win the midterms. At the moment, President Trump's approval rating is at a low point and Republicans are girding for losses. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
Trump administration officials are defending a plan to restructure the U.S. Forest Service and send its headquarters to Utah. As the Mountain West News Bureau's Rachel Cohen reports, it would also close dozens of research laboratories.
Fifty-seven of 77 Forest Service labs nationwide are on a list to shutter. Scientists at these labs study everything from pollinators to wildfires. The agency said this week the closures don't mean an end to research. It's just relocating small teams to other spaces.
But Carl Holtman, a union representative with the National Federation of Federal Employees, says those workers haven't been told where their jobs could be moved.
When we ask them for details, they say, well, those are still being worked out.
He says the changes could harm long-term projects. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Cohen.
On Wall Street, trading was mostly flat today. Investors are watching this weekend's ceasefire talks between the U.S. and Iran. This is NPR. The musician known as Africa Bambada has died. He was 68 years old. A pioneer of hip-hop and electronic music, Bambada was later accused by several men of having sexually abused them years earlier when they were children.
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