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"Do you think I'll be gone?" Commander Reed Weisman telling NASA mission control in Houston that all four Artemis two astronauts are well after safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego. Upon re-entering 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 splash down. NPR's NL Greenfield Boys
“"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, re-entering 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. 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 as 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 few limitations on what he can do and say.”
Moving at 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 "defying 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 and PR News Trump administration officials are defending a plan
to restructure the U.S. for a 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. 57 of 77, four service labs nationwide are on a list to shutter. Scientists at these lab 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 Hopman,”
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 asked them for details, they said, "Well, those are still being worked out." He says the changes could harm long-term projects. For MPR News, I'm Rachel Cohen. On Wall Street trading was mostly flat today, investors are watching this weekend 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. NPR's Isabella Gomez Sermiento reports. Africa Bambada grew up in the South Bronx in New York. He was a teenager when the beginnings of hip-hop were emerging in the 1970s. Graffiti, break dancing, and DJing. Bambada formed an arts collective
known as the Universal Zooloonation. He made a name for himself mixing more traditional elements of funk and soul with punk rock and electronic music. His 1982 song "Planet Rock" with drum machines since and futuristic vocals changed the course of hip-hop history. Leading Bambada to be seen as one of the founding fathers of the genre. In 2016, several men accused Bambada of sexually abusing them as minors. The musician denied those allegations which spanned back to the 1980s.
Isabella Gomez Sermiento and PR news. A raffle ticket in France could get you up Picasso painting, a fundraising raffle is offering up the 1941 painting "Tet to Fem" or "Head of a Woman" tickets cost $117 or 100 euro. The proceeds will benefit Alzheimer's research. The drawing takes place Tuesday at Christie's auction house in Paris. Previous fundraiser raffles of Picasso's work
have raised more than $10 million for cultural and humanitarian causes. Previous winners were a
fire sprinkler worker in Pennsylvania and an accountant in Italy, only 120,000 tickets will be sold. This is NPR news. This is Ira Glass. On this American life, we tell stories about when things change. Like for this guy David, his entire life took a sharp and expected and very unpleasant term. And it did take me a while to realize it is basically because the monkey pressed the button. That's right because the monkey pressed the button. Sprising stories every week. Where you get your podcast.
