This is bbc news the headlines. the american space agency nasa says it ll go ahead with its launch of a giant new moon rocket next monday. the uncrewed maiden test flight for the artemis one mission will send a small capsule around the moon before it returns to earth with an ocean splashdown. donald trump has asked a federal court to temporarily block the fbi from reviewing the material it seized from his florida home two weeks ago. he s also asked the court to appoint what s called a special master usually a retired lawyer or judge to act as a watchdog. china has introduced emergency measures to save electricity as the country battles the worst droughts in some places in more than half a century. shanghai is switching off its famous waterfront lights,
Is instant, everything is going to be in hd. so you will have the celebrities and stuff like that. it is going to be exciting and noisy but we are sending humans to walk on another world, and hopefully, maybe, this time it ll be a global effort and not two countries competing with each other. it has been very much a team effort, global collaboration of notjust nasa but many other countries. absolutely. the stage behind the command module is made by europe, inside are three mannequins, one is an american dummy, the others from europe, the science at the back will be brought altogether but if you look who is participating in this programme, canada, europe, japan, so it is notjust going to be the first person of colour and first american woman but the first person from canada, from europe, from uk, fromjapan, walking on the surface of the moon, so it is a global effort.
While the temperature rises to nearly 3,000 degrees celsius. a series of parachutes open, massively slowing it down, before splash down in the pacific ocean. keith cowing is a former nasa employee and now editor of the website, nasa watch. he explained why there was so much excitement surrounding nasa s artemis launch. i am a child of the apollo generation. lam 67. i went through all of this as a kid, i was told that we would land on the moon in nine years and we did. there was lots of excitement then but that was then and this is now, and we are talking about the artemis generation with, in many ways people harking back to this being their apollo moment, but right now, more than half of the world s population has never seen anybody walk on another world so it is going to be their first moonwalk. that was then with apollo and this is now, everything
The moon, with the spacecraft making small adjustments along the way. at first, the spacecraft flies in close, 100 kilometres, that s 62 miles, above the lunar surface. then it enters a much larger orbit, swinging more than 65,000 kilometres, about 40,000 miles, beyond the moon. that s further than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown. during the several weeks 0rion is in orbit, nasa will collect important data and check how the spacecraft is performing. finally, after another close fly by, it s ready to head for home. now things get hazardous. as the spacecraft nears earth, it has to enter our atmosphere at exactly the right angle. if it gets this wrong, it will burn up. so, its huge heat shield protects it while the temperature rises to nearly 3,000 degrees celsius.
His rule was relatively short lived and he died in portugal 12 years later, but he had become a symbol of the strong bonds between the two countries. translation: the return of the heart of don pedro | is for all of us, and we hope for brazilians as well as i a moment of great happiness. his heart will remain in brazil for three weeks. local officials say that it will be treated like a living head of state with full military honours. the spirit of an emperor and the empire he once ruled, reunited at last. tim allman, bbc news. a reminder of our top story. the american space agency nasa says it ll go ahead with its launch of a giant new moon rocket next monday. the uncrewed maiden test flight for the artemis i mission will send a small capsule