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Meet the crew of NASA’s Artemis 1 moon mission: manikins and Snoopy : NPR

While there are many miscellaneous items joining the exciting Artemis I mission, none might be as recognizable as Snoopy the black and white dog created by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

Snoopy is not new to NASA and has been tied to moon missions since 1969 when the lunar module of the Apollo 10 mission was nicknamed Snoopy because of its role in scouting out or “snooping around” a landing site for the Apollo 11 mission.

Schulz also created cartoons of Snoopy on the moon that captured “public excitement about America’s achievements in space” during the Apollo years, according to NASA.

This time though, Snoopy has a mission of his own. Because the Artemis I mission is uncrewed, a plush Snoopy will serve as a zero gravity indicator to show the team on the ground when the spacecraft reaches weightlessness.

Giuliani:

“If you look at the Espionage Act, it’s not really about taking the documents—it’s about destroying them, or hiding them, or giving them to the enemy. It’s not about taking them and putting them in a place that’s roughly as safe as they were in in the first place.”

Oliver:

“OK, look, putting aside Rudy walking right up to the line of admitting on Trump’s behalf that he took those documents, if you’re comparing the security of two places, the two worst examples would be the White House and the Florida resort where a failed Bachelorette contestant actually claimed on Instagram, ‘I snooped around pretty dang freely and Secret Service wasn’t too worried about which room I went in,’ because it’s not exactly a security storage facility if youth pastor Ryan Reynolds here can just wander around wherever the fuck he likes.”

According to Bing:

On about this date, in late August in 1619, the first enslaved Africans are brought to the colony of Jamestown. Stolen from a Portuguese slave ship by English pirates, the 20 to 30 men and women will be sold to colonists for supplies. Their forced arrival will mark the beginning of slavery in what will become America and a tragic start to African American history.