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 splash down. 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 orjudge, 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, many factories have
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. lots of landmark events, and always a danger when humans are involved.
Welcome to bbc news. i m simon pusey. our top stories. three, two, one. mission to the moon nasa gives the go ahead for its latest test flight artemis will launch next monday. we are going for a launch, which is absolutely outstanding. this day has been a long time coming. lawyers for donald trump take legal action following the raid on his florida home claiming it was an attempt to stop him running for office. when the lights go out shanghai s skyline is cast into darkness as china s severe drought leads to a power shortage. return of the liberator. brazil s first emperor arrives
Woman and the first person of colour setting foot there. it is the apollo mission for a new generation as our science editor rebecca morelle explains. after a 50 year gap, we re heading back to the moon, see and it all starts here with the artemis mission and nasa s huge rocket. it s called the space launch system, or sls for short, and it s the most powerful rocket ever built by the us space agency. it stands nearly 100 metres about 320 feet tall, roughly the same height as a 32 storey building. its colossal size means it s really heavy, so it needs lots of power. it has four engines, but even those aren t enough to get this rocket off the ground, so what it also needs are these two huge boosters. they all use fuel, and the biggest part, called the core stage, is full of fuel. in fact, fuel makes up 90% of the weight of this entire rocket. now, you might be wondering where the astronauts will go. well, it s here, near the top,
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